1.   American political analysts and politicians, who like many Russians view Yeltsin as the lesser evil, express bafflement that there is no stronger democratic alternative.

2.   Although the White House would have preferred the Democratic alternative, press secretary Mike McCurry said the Republican proposal was acceptable.

3.   And the Republicans rejected a sweeping Democratic alternative to the base gun control bill.

4.   Before approving the bill, Republicans defeated a less costly Democratic alternative that focused on low-income households, including expanded tax credits for the working poor.

5.   Before approving the Republican bill Thursday, the House rejected a Democratic alternative.

6.   Bishop supported the unsuccessful Democratic alternative calling for a more limited inquiry.

7.   -- A Democratic alternative, not yet drafted, that likely would make the limits apply retroactively to current members of Congress.

8.   A Democratic alternative would offer more extensive benefits, at a much higher cost to the government.

9.   A Democratic alternative, offered as an amendment to the bill, was defeated largely along partisan lines.

10.   A similar Democratic alternative went down to defeat Monday on a party-line vote in the Judiciary Committee.