1.   Edward Fagan, a Manhattan lawyer representing her and other individual claimants, denounced the agreement.

2.   Russia announced here Wednesday that it would return some World War II booty to individual claimants and contribute information from its archives to an international database on looted art.

3.   The sums promised individual claimants in the initial settlement are unlikely to be realized in any new deal, he said.

4.   China has previously insisted on discussing the Spratlys issue with each individual claimant and has refused to talk with more than one claimant at a time.

5.   China opposes efforts to settle the dispute in an international forum, advocating instead bilateral talks between individual claimants.