1.   Late Tuesday, the GOP leadership had not announced whether it would strip the anti-abortion language from the bill.

2.   Thursday, the leadership announced agreement on a lobbying reform bill that would ban most of the meals, resort vacations and other gifts from seekers of influence.

3.   Hours later, Iraqi leadership announces it accepts the Russian proposal to allow U.S. arms inspectors to return to the country immediately.

4.   The communist leadership has announced that reviving domestic demand will top its annual policy-setting meeting in October.

5.   The congress is a forum where the national leadership announces policy.

6.   The GOP leadership has already announced plans to highlight those issues in the congressional session beginning next week.

7.   The opposition leadership announced that it had blocked all major roads leading to Grozny in an offensive that began today, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

8.   The Palestinian leadership announced three days of mourning beginning Saturday in memory of King Hassan II of Morocco who died Friday of an acute lung infection.

9.   The Palestinian leadership announced three days of mourning beginning Saturday in memory of King Hassan II of Morocco who died Friday.

10.   The PKK leadership announced a cease-fire and withdrawal from Turkey in August.