1.   Earlier this month, a pro-Aristide legislator was killed in an ambush and the next day a driver for a prominent peasant movement was murdered in his car.

2.   The legislator was killed in revenge.

3.   A half dozen legislators have been killed by rebels or paramilitaries in the past year, and four more are being held hostage.

4.   Attackers killed one legislator and wounded another in what appeared to be an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon in a Port-au-Prince residential area.

5.   No legislators were killed or hurt Monday.

6.   Sabalat told fellow senators he had received a letter from a Cabinet minister accusing Celestin of plotting to kill several legislators.

7.   The vote also attracted nationwide attention after a leading liberal legislator was killed in St. Petersburg last month.

8.   Peace talks with the insurgents were suspended last year when the rebels killed two legislators.