1.   Annan traveled last February to Baghdad, where he brokered a last-minute deal that averted threatened U.S. airstrikes against Iraq.

2.   A Yugoslav official gave assurances that security forces in Kosovo will withdraw in time to avoid threatened airstrikes.

3.   A Yugoslav official assured that security forces in the secessionist province will withdraw in time to avoid threatened airstrikes.

4.   Belarus, along with Russia, is strongly opposed to threatened NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia.

5.   But their presence is, in effect, an assurance to Milosevic that NATO will not carry through with threatened airstrikes to enforce the October agreement.

6.   It appeared Milosevic was also gambling that opposition from the Russians and within Congress might prevent President Clinton from carrying through with the threatened airstrikes.

7.   It appeared Milosevic was also gambling that opposition from the Russians and within Congress might prevent U.S. President Bill Clinton from carrying through with the threatened airstrikes.

8.   It appeared Milosevic was gambling that opposition from the Russians and within Congress might prevent President Clinton from carrying through with the threatened airstrikes.

9.   It appeared Milosevic was gambling that opposition from the Russians and within Congress might prevent U.S. President Bill Clinton from carrying through with the threatened airstrikes.

10.   Milosevic averted threatened NATO airstrikes when he signed the October agreement, promising an end to the military campaign against separatists.