1.   The German chancellor beset with the economic burdens of absorbing the old East Germany is delighted to have found an ally, John Major.

2.   And the Russian leader phoned President Clinton and German chancellor Helmut Kohl, asking his two most powerful political backers for moral, if not financial, support.

3.   And the German chancellor has few good words to say about Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

4.   A signing ceremony scheduled for Wednesday morning will be attended by the German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder.

5.   A somber Gerhard Schroeder, the German chancellor, expressed his condolences to the families of the dead and attempted to blunt any criticism of the mission in Kabul.

6.   After a dinner with Chernomyrdin, Ahtisaari and their host, the German chancellor, Talbott slipped away to talk to Berger and Albright.

7.   But German chancellors do not visit places that celebrate the nastier sort of German nationalism, let alone the memory of men such as Hitler, Goring and Himmler.

8.   But he lacks the authority that accrues to a British prime minister or a German chancellor by dint of a majority in parliament.

9.   Gerhard Schroeder, the German chancellor, won a legal victory on Friday in his campaign to quash news reports that he dyes his hair.

10.   He is the first German chancellor to carry no guilt-inducing memory of World War II.