1.   Pentagon lawyers are undermining a landmark treaty banning blinding lasers on the battlefield, human rights activists said Friday.

2.   Senate Democrats lost a last-ditch delaying effort Wednesday, setting up the expected rejection of the landmark treaty in a major foreign policy defeat for President Clinton.

3.   President Leonid Kuchma complained Tuesday that major trade disagreements between Ukraine and Russia persist despite a landmark treaty signed last spring.

4.   Partial results released by the Ministry of Rural, Municipal and Environmental Affairs indicated a widespread acceptance of the landmark treaty.

5.   Permanent extension of the landmark treaty designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons looks like a sure thing.

6.   A skeptical Republican-controlled Congress and delay in Moscow in approving the landmark START II treaty are among the problems he has faced.

7.   After clearing that hurdle, the negotiators on Wednesday handed over the final phase of talks to their ministers, to complete the landmark treaty.

8.   American, Israeli and Syrian legal experts participated in preparation for a landmark treaty.

9.   And the two countries remain at odds over U.S. plans for a limited missile defense system, which would require renegotiating the landmark Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.

10.   But, Ryurikov stressed, Russia is not seeking to renegotiate the landmark treaty.