1.   Allied foreign ministers have asked NATO military experts to draw up four options for a continuation of the peacekeeping force beyond next June, when its current mandate expires.

2.   Chretien is especially vulnerable because he called the election a year and a half before his mandate expires.

3.   The mandate expires in November.

4.   U.S. soldiers assigned to the United Nations operation in Macedonia, whose mandate expired in February, were called in to secure the embassy.

5.   Until then, Tudjman had insisted that the U.N. forces withdraw completely when their mandate expired.

6.   Would Silajdzic pull the plug in November when the U.N. mandate expires?

7.   Parliament will begin debate before the mandate expires at the end of the month.

8.   Perelyakin added he was fired two weeks before his one-year mandate expired.

9.   Police Chief Francois Louis laughed when asked what he would do if the peacekeepers leave Haiti when their mandate expires in February.

10.   After his mandate expires, the president will be granted a residence, three pairvants, a car and an administrative clerk.