1.   As with the dairy compacts, there were regional dividing lines, but with a peculiar twist in that vote.

2.   All this squabbling seemed about to end this week when the dairy compact was supposed to go out of existence.

3.   But the dairy compact itself is facing an imminent deadline.

4.   By casting the debate in political terms, Jeffords and other supporters of the dairy compact might divert attention from another argument.

5.   Dole, of Kansas, did not support the dairy compact but nonetheless stressed his own farm-state credentials during a visit to Vermont and Maine on Monday.

6.   Dole ought to reject a quick vote on the dairy compact because it raises unexplored constitutional issues.

7.   In the East, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia have passed laws recently seeking to join the existing dairy compact.

8.   Last year, the dairy compact passed both the House and Senate with relative ease despite heavy opposition lobbying from the Milk Processors Foundation.

9.   Kohl forced the hold until a contentious dairy compact is resolved.

10.   New York, a major dairy producer, will not be covered by decisions of the dairy compact.