1.   Capping a hastily scheduled three-day swing through the Middle East, Albright appeared to be trying to clear the rubble off both tracks of the peace effort.

2.   Friedan and Smeal emerged from a hastily scheduled meeting with Livingston to report that he rebuffed their plea for censure rather than impeachment.

3.   It has only been out of a body for minutes, instead of the hours that usually lapse between a fatal accident or shooting and a hastily scheduled transplant.

4.   Then, on Thursday, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain arrives for a hastily scheduled visit to discuss joint action.

5.   A third, veteran activist Xu Wenli, faces a hastily scheduled trial on Monday.

6.   By far the biggest prize of the day was the autoworkers endorsement, and Gore added a hastily scheduled trip to Michigan to accept it.

7.   Castro arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday for a hastily scheduled, first trip to Japan after visits to Vietnam and China.

8.   Syrian President Hafez Assad, his foreign minister and vice-president arrived in Cairo for a hastily scheduled meeting with President Hosni Mubarak and his foreign minister.

9.   The company and union were back at the negotiating table for hastily scheduled talks following the settlement of the Teamsters strike.

10.   The hastily scheduled meeting followed reports that Netanyahu believed Cohen, who arrived in Israel on Thursday, was snubbing the prime minister by refusing to meet with him.