1.   The success of auction was proof of increasing demand, the federation said.

2.   A giant slalom planned for Alta Badia in Italy will be held in Tignes on Sunday, the international ski federation FIS said.

3.   But he said the federation itself, and the grass-roots programs it promotes, may not survive.

4.   But businessmen said federation members with ties to the Egyptian government had urged in meetings Sunday and Monday that the trip be scrapped.

5.   Six factories, including machinery and aluminum works, were ready to strike next Wednesday, the federation said.

6.   The Israeli labor federation Histadrut has closed its Buenos Aires-based Latin American office, the federation said Wednesday.

7.   Two separate analyses of the test results were conducted at the UCLA lab in Los Angeles and both confirmed the positive finding, the federation said.

8.   U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko said federation police were reluctant to cooperate from the first day of the hand over.

9.   U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko said federation police balked at cooperation from the first day of the hand over.

10.   If this was not possible, then the Games should be abandoned altogether, the federation said.