1.   And at Pervomaiskaya Thursday, the European diplomat was little more than a bystander.

2.   As one European diplomat noted, gulf countries rely on the United States in one way or another to protect them from their powerful neighbors, Iran and Iraq.

3.   At first, Boutros-Ghali was thought by European diplomats to be leaning toward choosing the Finnish candidate, Ms. Rehn, whom he knew well.

4.   A European diplomat said Friday that soldiers from Zimbabwe had been coming to Kinshasa for several days now, but that so far they numbered only in the hundreds.

5.   A European diplomat said he thought the ruling Bosnian Serb party should be worried.

6.   A European diplomat said Ms. Albright had in fact confused her allies on occasion by explaining policies in terms that varied from those of State Department officials.

7.   A European diplomat said that the most troubling thing about the Kosovo rebels was that it was not clear what they stood for.

8.   A European diplomat said there had been considerable criticism of American methods in the news media there.

9.   A European diplomat said that allowing Iraq to sell unlimited oil would remove the criticism that the West was insensitive to Iraqi suffering.

10.   A European diplomat in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was a mistake by the Clinton administration to pressure Russia publicly on the issue.