1.   Lanskoi, the minister, had moved into the reformist camp and become reliant on Nikolai Miliutin.

2.   This shift to the reformist camp does not appear to be an ideological epiphany for a Moscow-trained engineer who became party boss.

3.   Gholamhossein Karbaschi was convicted Thursday after a month-long trial that was viewed as part of power struggle between hard-liners and a reformist camp around President Mohammad Khatami.

4.   The monthlong trial was viewed as part of a power struggle between hard-liners and a reformist camp around President Mohammad Khatami.

5.   The month-long trial of Karbaschi was widely viewed as part of a power struggle between hard-liners in the government and a reformist camp that Khatami leads.

6.   He is considered a leading figure of the reformist camp which dominates parliament.

7.   Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to exploit and widen differences between the conservative and reformist camps in the Islamic republic.

8.   Kozyrev, seeking to counter fears expressed by Christopher that Russian reforms are derailing, added that President Boris Yeltsin intends to steer back towards the reformist camp.

9.   The judiciary has denounced financial corruption and accused leading reformist figures of bribery, in what the reformist camp rejects as a campaign orchestrated by the conservatives.