1.   A succession of secretaries-general has maintained that only the Security Council can end the mission, an action the council has chosen not to do.

2.   After a year orbiting the asteroid Eros and completing all its scientific objectives, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft will end its mission next week, scientists say.

3.   But in the perspective of the Postal Service, involving the private sector in mail delivery would end its mission of providing everyone the same service.

4.   By this time, they say, they had little choice but to end the mission.

5.   Clinton has already said he wants to end the mission by next June.

6.   He had been expected to end his mission last weekend but extended it over signs that the frosty relations between the long-feuding parties were thawing.

7.   He was announcing that U.S. troops will remain in Bosnia for a year or more after the Implementation Force overseeing the Dayton agreement ends its mission next month.

8.   In the end, Kranz brought the men home, ending a mission in many ways more dramatic than the first lunar landing itself.

9.   It also appeared to be aimed at satisfying a key Chinese demand that the spy missions be curbed, but without committing the United States to ending the missions.

10.   Lifting the embargo, though, would end the mission for U.N. peacekeepers, who fear being trapped in between an escalating war.