11.   Both advocates and opponents agreed that any deal will have to make provisions for tobacco farmers.

12.   A number of tobacco-growing states, like North Carolina and Kentucky, are likely to use part of their settlements to help tobacco farmers.

13.   A tobacco farmer, my granddaddy was partial to Honeybee snuff, Hank Williams songs, International Harvester tractors, and the Democratic policies of Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge.

14.   Both sides in the talks promise that tobacco farmers will not be punished and that any accord will include some kind of protection.

15.   Burley tobacco farmers in Kentucky welcomed the dry start to the season that helps plants establish sturdy root systems.

16.   But Terry Harper of Georgia, a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, believes foreign markets are the root of his problems.

17.   But until recently his main claim to recognition in Washington was as the only active tobacco farmer in Congress and a leading House advocate of the cigarette manufacturers.

18.   Cigarette companies, advertising agencies, makers of smokeless tobacco and even some tobacco farmers have sued to keep the FDA from regulating tobacco.

19.   Clinton demonstrated his powers of persuasion Thursday when he flew to Kentucky and put his case to the tobacco farmers.

20.   Clinton may also suggest other changes in the settlement, including provisions designed to protect tobacco farmers, such as subsidies to grow other crops.