1.   Balladur also conferred by telephone with Prime Minister Mokdad Sifi of Algeria.

2.   Bush also conferred by telephone for nearly an hour with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday during strategy sessions with top advisers at Camp David, Md.

3.   Bush also conferred by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin several times on Saturday during strategy sessions with top advisers at Camp David, Md.

4.   President Clinton conferred by telephone with Netanyahu Thursday on ways to push forward the Middle East peace process.

5.   The ruling came today after the judge conferred by telephone with attorneys from all three companies.

6.   Powell conferred by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before the foray.

7.   And reaching out to the Europeans for peacemaking support, Powell conferred by telephone on Tuesday with Louis Michel, the foreign minister of Belgium.

8.   Before agreeing to the meeting, Clinton conferred by telephone with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee who raised no objections, a White House official said.

9.   Bush conferred by telephone Tuesday with Vice President-elect Dick Cheney and Andrew Card, who will be his White House chief of staff.

10.   Eckhard also said Annan conferred by telephone with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Cairo.