1.   Clinton and Yeltsin opened the summit with a primarily social dinner at the Finnish presidential palace on the Helsinki waterfront.

2.   President Bush opens summits with proven battlefield allies, starting with France.

3.   African heads of state and the U.N. secretary-general opened a summit Monday on the rebellion sweeping Zaire and called anew for a cease-fire and peace talks.

4.   African heads of state and the U.N. secretary-general opened a summit Wednesday on the rebellion sweeping Zaire and called anew for a cease-fire and peace talks.

5.   Algerian President Liamine Zeroual was chosen to open the summit.

6.   At a dinner opening the summit, the leaders opened on economics, but at the urging of French President Jacques Chirac, turned to Bosnia.

7.   Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada opened the summit with a call for development without pollution and unfair burdens on the poor.

8.   Castro is also expected to meet with Pope John Paul II, who opened the summit by denouncing the use of economic embargoes and sanctions.

9.   Clinton will open Mideast summit, join negotiations.

10.   CIS opens summit in Moscow.