1.   Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, now in a Belgrade jail cell, leads most lists.

2.   Granted, three years of international trade sanctions may have helped to nudge Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian strongman, to peace talks in Dayton, Ohio.

3.   In diplomacy, as at home, the Serbian strongman long succeeded in convincing others that he could not be circumvented.

4.   Nobody knows that phenomenon better than Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian strongman.

5.   Now Milosevic, the former Serbian strongman, was in the dock, a prisoner of the United Nations.

6.   The erstwhile Serbian strongman was cornered by the authorities in time to meet a deadline imposed by the United States.

7.   There is a pattern to the crimes of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

8.   So it was no surprise to find the former Serbian strongman bristling with irritable indignation when placed in the dock at The Hague yesterday.

9.   The EU statement warned of military action unless Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic withdraws his security forces from Kosovo.

10.   Thousands of demonstrators turned out to protest the election of Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian strongman blamed for fomenting war, to the post of Yugoslav president.