1.   Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts.

2.   The deputy premier said there was no way back to the former Soviet Union.

3.   Hotel staff said the Russian deputy premier Boris Fyodorov would arrive at the talks today.

4.   A deputy premier filled in, and Russian TV said Chernomyrdin had chosen to remain on vacation in southern Russia.

5.   He served as first deputy premier, premier and party secretary.

6.   In the interim, Bernard Landry, the deputy premier, is likely to fill in.

7.   On matters of political reform, Zhu, a deputy premier, is as orthodox as the rest of the current Communist Party leadership.

8.   People who served in the administration still talk about the time the deputy premier of the Soviet Union, Anastas Mikoyan, arrived to see the president.

9.   The Serbian Radical party, the ultranationalist party of deputy premier Vojislav Seselj, announced it was leaving the government on Monday.

10.   Yeltsin kept only Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and the pro-western economist Anatoly Chubais, named just last Friday as first deputy premier.