1.   President Bush is to visit Lithuania to get a first-hand report on the situation in the rebel Baltic republic.

2.   And it also warned that the war in the rebel republic could start up again.

3.   In Moscow, the government issued statements repeating its promise to intensify military action to bring the rebel republic to heel.

4.   The rebel republic occupies a strip of land across the Dniester River from the rest of the former Soviet Republic of Moldavia.

5.   Though his company, Intertect Relief and Reconstruction Corp., had been hired by the Soros Foundation, Cuny was also exploring the tangled politics of the rebel republic.

6.   Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said today a Yeltsin decree halting Russian military activities in the rebel republic was expected within the next few days.

7.   Rebel attacks continue to claim lives in the rebel republic.

8.   A radio-controlled bomb exploded near a building housing city government offices and the national television company of the rebel republic.

9.   A Russian tank commander and two other servicemen were killed in Chechen attacks as some Russian troops prepared to leave the rebel republic, the military command said Sunday.