51.   Clinton has already asked Putin to release Pope, but the Russian leader has said the legal system must finish deciding the matter.

52.   Clinton said he trusted the Russian leader to abide by the deal.

53.   Clinton spoke to Yeltsin by telephone after the Russian leader met with Milosevic in Moscow.

54.   Clinton spoke on the same day the Russian leader returned to work at the Kremlin.

55.   Clinton said NATO and Russian leaders should meet jointly and act in tandem when possible, which Clinton said has happened in Bosnia.

56.   Chernomyrdin has been negotiating with Russian parliamentary leaders, including the Communist Party, on a broad economic and political strategy for recovery.

57.   Despite the official backing from the new Russian leader, however, Kalamanov seems to be playing David to the Russian military Goliath.

58.   Doctors treating President Boris Yeltsin for a heart ailment have ruled that the hospitalized Russian leader must remain under close observation through November, his personal spokesman said Friday.

59.   Embers from the Chechen war will smolder long and well may flare into Muslim resistance in far-flung pockets of Russia, a wide spectrum of Russian leaders is warning.

60.   Even some of those who admire the Harvard team disagree with the advice they have given Russian leaders.