1.   The joint chiefs were unwilling to support a treaty at this Juncture for strategic reasons.

2.   Still, a majority continue to support the treaty.

3.   Clinton supports the treaty, but lacks the two-thirds majority to win Senate approval.

4.   Ever since, the general noted, the military has supported the treaty banning underground nuclear testing.

5.   Gore has said he has called some members of Congress to push them to support the treaty, but he has not said how many.

6.   Israel said this weekend that it can support the treaty.

7.   Many business delegations support the treaty, either on its merits or as less economically harmful than child-protective restrictions on international trade.

8.   More than three-quarters of the people in both nations support the treaty, and nationalist parties have lost ground in recent years.

9.   Officials said most of those undecided senators appeared to be watching the majority leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, to see if he will support the treaty.

10.   Officials said Primakov had told Christopher that it will be a hard sell in the new Russian legislature, but that the Russian Defense Ministry supports the treaty.