1.   Freon trailed only illegal drugs last year in the ranking of smuggled material seized by U.S. Customs officials.

2.   Kaurov also promised cooperation, but said there was only speculation about the source of the smuggled material.

3.   Still, Tomarovsky, the intelligence spokesman, said that Russia would happily participate with Bonn in any investigation of the smuggled materials.

4.   A second threat scenario involves a terrorist group building its own nuclear bomb using smuggled nuclear material.

5.   Authorities later said the smuggled material was not suitable or of insufficient quantity to make a bomb, and no charges have yet been filed.

6.   Blix suggested that fears of smuggled Russian nuclear materials might be exaggerated.

7.   Fechner, of the Ministry of Environment and Nuclear Safety, dismissed suggestions in Moscow that Russia may not be a source of smuggled material.

8.   One growing source of the smuggled materials was corrupt officers of the Russian navy submarine force, Spiegel said.

9.   The Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote Saturday that the uproar over smuggled atomic materials was a way of putting pressure on Yeltsin ahead of his trip.

10.   Russia has denied official involvement in the illegal exports, revealed in a spate of seizures of smuggled nuclear material, many of them in Germany.