1.   A meeting of factory chiefs at Misano on Thursday, showed a majority were behind dropping the rules.

2.   Sultan Hashim Ahmad, operations chief at the Ministry of Defence.

3.   Alliance leader John Alderdice held emergency talks with the security chief at Stormont on the recent spate of murders and sectarian attacks.

4.   Baldwin, also a USOC vice president, will serve as the U.S. mission chief at Sydney.

5.   Baxter, the Stanford law professor, was the antitrust chief at the Justice Department who tossed out the IBM case.

6.   Bevans, the security chief at the stadium, said officials would rely heavily on the huge number of video cameras that scan the ballpark.

7.   A battalion chief at the time, the Los Angeles Fire Commission selected him as interim chief over several higher ranking fire officials.

8.   But suspicions lingered that the real mastermind might have been Zia, who was deputy army chief at the time.

9.   Clinton met with the mayors and police chiefs at the White House on Thursday to try to rally their support for those measures.