1.   The most urgent priority for the new team should be to rally city legislators in Albany to get reform of the school structure.

2.   A city legislator remains hospitalized after she and another deputy were abducted and beaten late Wednesday night as they left their downtown offices.

3.   City legislators broke the deadlock Wednesday with an all-party decision to pledge more pay for orchestra members and turn it into an independent foundation next year.

4.   City legislators met with federal lawmakers Thursday to tackle the prickly issue of constitutional reform in hopes of establishing greater control over Federal District management.

5.   City legislators of all three parties joined to vote out a long-serving conservative mayor in June and call new elections.

6.   Most troubling for city legislators was the increase in kidnappings to an average of one per day.

7.   Political pundits attribute the lack of knowledge of the roles of city legislators and district councillors to several factors.

8.   Shootings, carjackings and bank robberies make daily headlines in Buenos Aires and some city legislators have called for stiffer penalties against teen-age suspects in murder cases.

9.   Yevgeny Balashov, a Moscow city legislator, called for stricter legislation against such exploitation and for a law prohibiting teen-agers from being out at night without adult supervision.