1.   First, a media sting operation caught several senior government aides taking bribes from arms dealers.

2.   A government aide who helped draft the proposed changes was assassinated several weeks ago, and a left-wing domestic guerrilla group claimed responsibility.

3.   But his most concrete and outrageous demands are that Yeltsin dismiss all his top government aides from Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomydin to Defense Secretary Pavel S. Grachev.

4.   Government aides said the White House provides Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan an early readout on the statistics.

5.   In Iowa on Thursday, a government aide put a slip of paper inside each of two black canisters.

6.   One sibling has epilepsy, another was born disabled and receives government aide.

7.   Silverstein sought federal guarantees for construction loans and protection from lawsuits brought by the victims or their families, according to a government aide who attended the meeting.

8.   There is also a cadre of experienced government aides like Fyodorov.

9.   Today, reporters go through an elaborate drill to interview even third-level government aides.

10.   A number of government aides and prominent businessmen have been killed in similar incidents in recent years.