11.   AEK is tipped to gain the second Champions League slot.

12.   Berger said there have been difficulties especially in qualifying with his Benetton Renault car, so he was happy about the second slot.

13.   Benfica failed to hold the second slot for itself after being held to a scoreless draw Sunday by a humble Leca squad.

14.   Elder statesman Shimon Peres, a former prime minister, was given the second slot by common consent.

15.   Ellis Burks, also batting out of position in the second slot, then drove in Vizquel with a double.

16.   First place will go to Barak, who pledged the second slot to Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

17.   He pledged the second slot to Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

18.   He starts from the second slot.

19.   However, two possible Peres successors, Foreign Minister Ehud Barak and Interior Minister Haim Ramon, were in a tight race for the second slot.

20.   The chief secretary, the second slot in the treasury, is a member of the Cabinet along with the treasury secretary.