1.   Extremist leaders in Northern Ireland, unless they learn to change quickly, may soon find themselves obsolete.

2.   Extremist leaders in the Communist Party have taken a public lead in promoting anti-Semitism, and Yeltsin has made his disapproval clear but not consistent.

3.   He has mouthed off to an extremist leader from the Christian right on a TV news show and could be fired.

4.   Lebed had appealed in the election to voters who were repulsed by the personal excesses of the extremist leader Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky.

5.   Like many others, he said, he was the victim of the hot blood of youth and the frenzy of extremist religious leaders.

6.   The first step is overcoming the extraordinary denial among Serbs and Croats that their extremist leaders committed documented atrocities.

7.   The Karachai asserted their dominance, and according to observers here, that has irked the Circassians, whose extremist leaders are now calling for secession.

8.   Operating behind the veil of religion, a relatively small number of Islamic mosques and extremist leaders have for years promoted terror-related activities.

9.   Police have uncovered a plot by suspected Islamic militants to kidnap U.S. citizens in Egypt and swap them with jailed extremist leaders, a security source said Thursday.

10.   Police killed a suspected Muslim extremist leader in a raid on his desert hideout near the Egyptian-Sudanese border, the Interior Ministry announced Thursday.