1.   And Lucien Bouchard, the Quebec separatist leader, promised there will be yet another next time.

2.   As if in a time warp, Boulevard Rene-Levesque, named after the separatist leader, reverts to Dorchester Boulevard when the asphalt crosses into Westmount.

3.   Battered and humiliated by the rebels, the Russian troops withdrew from the region in January, and Chechnya has elected a separatist leader as its president.

4.   A Fort Davis couple told of being taken hostage by the Republic of Texas as the trial of separatist leader Richard McLaren wound into its second day Tuesday.

5.   A report that the separatist Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed this week dominated Russian news and political calculations Tuesday, but his lieutenants quickly denied it was true.

6.   A separatist leader hotly denied this and the matter seems to have been dropped.

7.   But now, judging by the expanding waistlines of the graying separatist leaders, food may be winning out .

8.   Early in the war, Chechen separatist leaders decided that they would release Russian prisoners only to their mothers.

9.   Emotions still run high in the streets of Montreal and in the oratory of the losing separatist leaders.

10.   Even today, Berezovsky maintains contact with Chechen separatist leaders.