1.   Nikulin was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, alongside leading officials and artists.

2.   A leading French official also backed the call for action.

3.   A leading official of the Islamic Salvation Front, Mohammed Dneidni, said this week that the government was directly responsible for the recent massacres.

4.   A year after Montana became the only state without a fixed daytime speed limit on its highways, some leading state officials have decided they want one back.

5.   But several leading economic officials say that the original warning was buried in a mountain of economic intelligence issued by the CIA.

6.   But the leading official of the redevelopment project said Tuesday that he hoped the dispute could be resolved.

7.   Critics, including some leading public officials, also have said the new bank is not as responsive to cultural and ethnic diversity as the former BankAmerica was.

8.   In interviews with leading officials in Kosovo this week, officials with the United Nations, the peacekeepers and Kosovo Albanians stressed the civilian aspect of the new force.

9.   Last month Dr. Shen Jie, a leading AIDS official, went to Brazil to learn about its treatment program.

10.   More recently, however, leading officials and tycoons have argued that Moscow should take visible steps to crack down on corruption.