1.   To him an important embassy was a perquisite of birth rather than the culmination of years of painstaking effort.

2.   THREE British embassies are to open in the former Soviet Union and former Czechoslovakia, the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, announced last night.

3.   An administration official in Washington said it was common for embassies to be near private property with security precautions left to the local owners.

4.   An office building behind the embassy was destroyed, and the embassy itself was shattered.

5.   At issue is the Vienna Convention, the treaty which states that an embassy is the sovereign territory of the country it represents.

6.   Both embassies were located immediately adjacent or close to public streets and were especially vulnerable to large vehicular bombs.

7.   Both embassies are in hotels for now, until permanent locations are found.

8.   A few weeks ago, some Taliban militia apparently thought the embassy would be a good place to ride out the American air strikes.

9.   A reconstruction of the Nairobi bombing, based on interviews with guards and other witnesses, shows that the embassy was vulnerable to the most rudimentary attack.

10.   A spokesman for the German Embassy said the embassy was unaware of any West Bank brewery at all.