1.   A number of recent arms deals have embarrassed the government.

2.   Gen. Asparukhov alleged that Mishev had attempted to set up a secret arms deal with Macedonia.

3.   An arms reduction deal is important to Putin, who has made foreign policy sacrifices in his relations with the West.

4.   Analysts in Washington said it was highly unlikely that Putin would jeopardize the arms reduction deal by conducting nuclear tests.

5.   And Russian weapons factories would like to conclude new arms deals.

6.   Arms deals can also be negotiated on concessionary terms, backed by loan guarantees.

7.   At the Pentagon, Rumsfeld announced that the United States and Pakistan will resume military-to-military relations, the first necessary step toward future arms deals.

8.   A congressional aide tied to an arms deal is killed in Washington.

9.   A lucrative arms deal, oil and political friendship with a regime that still beheads and chops off the hands of its citizens.

10.   About two-thirds of all arms deals involve Third World countries.