11.   A senior administration official said Moscow appeared to be sending simultaneous and ambiguous signals to NATO, to the restive Russian parliament and to the Serbian people.

12.   A Russian journalist joked that Karelin may have been distracted by his duties in the lower house of the Duma, the Russian parliament.

13.   A tough new anti-drug law passed last year by the Russian parliament gives police the right to stop and search people who look as if they are using drugs.

14.   A young liberal member of the Russian parliament was shot dead by his bodyguard early Sunday while campaigning in his district in Siberia.

15.   But representatives from the Russian parliament were among those present and speakers paid tribute to the Red Army.

16.   But their voices were voted down in both houses of the Russian parliament, which refused to debate the matter.

17.   Clinton and Yeltsin held out carrots to the Russian parliament to approve START II, promise to start on a new START III round of negotiations.

18.   Clinton also agreed to set key testing constraints to define the difference between antiballistic missiles and theater missiles, another sticking point in the Russian parliament.

19.   Clinton and Yeltsin agreed that once the Russian parliament signs off on START II, the two countries would start discussions on a new, START III treaty.

20.   Clinton and Yeltsin also agreed to begin talks on a new arms-reduction treaty, START III, if the Russian parliament ratifies START II is ratified.