1.   Local press reports quoted the Minister of State for Defence, Maj.-Gen.

2.   As recently as early this morning, press reports quoted Bosnian and American officials as saying the talks probably would end without a peace agreement.

3.   A merger on equal terms would be mutually beneficial, the report quoted Honma as saying.

4.   A police report quoted her as saying Irvin had held a gun at her head while Williams and the third man assaulted her.

5.   A recent New York Times news report quoted experts who confirmed that the celebrated century-old symbol of childhood freedom and transportation is nearly extinct.

6.   But a subsequent Anti-Defamation League report quoted Farrakhan as saying in speeches that rich Jews financed Hitler and the Holocaust.

7.   But news reports quote prosecutors as saying Berezovsky, long said to have a huge but hidden interest in Aeroflot, is a target of the inquiry.

8.   But television reports quoted police as saying they had found no remnants of chemicals or of containers.

9.   Even so, newspaper reports quote unnamed Heseltine supporters speculating on the make-up of a future Heseltine cabinet.