1.   House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans have warned that Russian refusal to cancel the Iran reactor sale would lead to a cutoff of U.S. funding.

2.   Pressed by U.S. officials last week, Adamov said that no reactor sales were planned.

3.   The Russian ministries pushing the reactor sale insist that they can ensure tight enough inspections to make a bomb impractical.

4.   US diplomats have been raising quiet objections to the reactor sale for a year.

5.   Perry is also using the trip to renew U.S. efforts to persuade Russia to abandon the reactor sale.

6.   Both China and Russia have rebuffed U.S. appeals against reactor sales to Iran, arguing that the deals conformed to international law and to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

7.   But so far, the Russians are either unconvinced or believe the money from the reactor sale is more important.

8.   But so far, the Russians are either unconvinced or believe money from the reactor sale is more important.

9.   Details of the reactor sale are to be reviewed by a commission led by Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

10.   Even Clinton conceded that the reactor sale would be legal under international law, and Yeltsin quickly underlined that point.