1.   A pro-government Kurdish clan leader, who is also a member of Parliament, survived.

2.   But clan leaders say that the fundamentalists would have an uphill battle if they tried to take power and to impose strict Islamic morality on the people.

3.   But not this time, said G.W. Cheborian, chairman of the Sabiny Elders Association, a council of clan leaders.

4.   But some analysts say that the United States created Aidid, raising him above a number of petty clan leaders.

5.   Chechen clan leaders may decide to lay down arms to stop the bloodshed, but no signs of capitulation have appeared.

6.   Clan leaders have also stockpiled arms for what administration officials fear could soon develop into a full-scale civil war.

7.   Few polanalysts say they believe that the fundamentalists have enough support yet to challenge the power of the traditional clan leaders, who have divided Somalia into small fiefs.

8.   General Zinni served as the director of operations for the initial U.S.-led mission in Somalia, and he knows virtually all of the important Somali clan leaders.

9.   He indirectly appealed to Chechen clan leaders to ignore Dudayev and to make a separate peace with Moscow.

10.   In Chronicle interviews three months ago, clan leaders in Vlore openly boasted that two-thirds of all automobiles in the country are stolen.