21.   NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana was due in northeast Bosnia Friday for a lightning visit to NATO-led peace Implementation Force troops in the region, IFOR officials said.

22.   President Nicephore Soglo spent the weekend staging lightning visits to communities in the southeast of the country in a last-ditch bid to stave off defeat.

23.   President Boris Yeltsin paid a lightning visit to war-ravaged Chechnya on Tuesday, declaring peace was in sight but again ruling out independence for the breakaway republic.

24.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin paid a lightning visit to Jordan on Thursday night to update King Hussein.

25.   Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev dashed fragile hopes of a settlement in Chechnya by ending a lightning visit to Grozny Tuesday morning without meeting separatist leaders as proposed.

26.   Rabin paid a lightning visit to Jordan on Thursday night to update King Hussein.

27.   South African Vice President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Maputo Friday on a lightning visit apparently aimed at cooling rising political tensions in Mozambique, diplomatic sources said.

28.   Speaking during a lightning visit to Kampot, Hun Sen angrily attacked press reporting of the hostage-taking and subsequent events.