1.   Council resolutions need a two thirds majority.

2.   A series of Council resolutions have empowered NATO to act against Bosnian Serb targets in both Bosnia and Croatia.

3.   A series of council resolutions have empowered NATO to act against Bosnian Serb targets in both Bosnia and in parts of neighboring Croatia occupied by nationalist Serbs.

4.   Iraq is required under council resolutions to allow inspectors to go anywhere they wish to search for weapons material or documents.

5.   Some new elements have entered the negotiations on the proposed council resolution.

6.   That is spelled out in a separate council resolution.

7.   The council resolution also asks the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to move MacDonald closer to home while Clinton is considering a federal pardon.

8.   The council resolution did not call for a state takeover of the schools, and the mayor, Michael P. Peters, said he doubted that would happen.

9.   The five permanent members, which have the power to veto council resolutions, are the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia.

10.   The reconfigured Bosnia force, and the council resolution to legitimize it, were both created in Europe.