1.   But backers were cheered that mainstream health groups did not denounce the proposed pact outright.

2.   But Meehan endorsed the effort to spare Liggett from the harsher terms of the proposed national pact.

3.   He criticized the proposed pact for failing to give the FDA enough control over tobacco and for granting the tobacco industry immunity from future lawsuits.

4.   KPMG also cited the cost of the proposed pact and the possibility that only a few foreign regulatory agencies might have blessed the union.

5.   The ethnic Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army are required under the proposed pact to disarm over a period of six months.

6.   The proposed pact still faces antitrust reviews in the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union.

7.   The proposed pact was negotiated by a group of state attorney generals and the tobacco industry.

8.   The proposed pact, under discussion for four years, would open Vietnamese markets to U.S. companies and would give Vietnam normal trading relations with the United States.

9.   Presidential hopeful Alejandro Toledo on Tuesday accused Fujimori and his supporters of dragging their feet on a proposed pact to conduct a clean runoff election.

10.   Chu said the proposed pact will offer guideliness to promote economic ties.