11.   Yuri Gladkevich, an analyst at the independent Military News Agency, said Russia would have nothing to gain politically from such a deployment.

12.   He added that an agreement on such a deployment to last until mid-December could be concluded within the week.

13.   The Republican congressional majority has said it will use its control of finances to curb such a deployment.

14.   Yeltsin said such a deployment would now depend on the outcome of the Grozny peace talks.

15.   Lord Owen of the European Union said that in talks Sunday Milosevic made clear that he was opposed to such a deployment.

16.   Khaddam said such a deployment had not yet been discussed.

17.   Owen, the mediator appointed by the European Union, said that in talks Sunday Milosevic made it clear that he was opposed to such a deployment.

18.   The letter warned that the administration had not convincingly shown why such a deployment was in the national interest.