1.   Meanwhile, Fleischer defended a reception hosted Monday night by Vice President Dick Cheney at his government residence.

2.   Several black jeeps with darkened windows were parked down the street from the back entrance to the government residence where Milosevic lives.

3.   They were tucked away in several government residences outside Amman where they remained inaccessible to the press and under guard.

4.   All places have served as government residences since their nationalization by the communists.

5.   Another close Kabila ally, former information minister Raphael Ghenda, was among five ministers who have been detained in a luxury government residence since last week.

6.   Aznar had hoped to meet with Arafat this week in Spain but the Palestinian leader has been unable to leave his government residence in Ramallah because of Israeli restrictions.

7.   Aznar had hoped to meet with Arafat this week in Spain but the Palestinian leader has been unable to leave his government residence in Ramalla because of Israeli restrictions.

8.   But the president softened his stance Thursday in the meeting at Rus, a government residence outside the capital.

9.   But Yeltsin softened his stance on Thursday in the meeting at Rus, a government residence outside the capital.

10.   In the upper house of parliament, speaker Yegor Stroyev said he expected a compromise to emerge from the talks Thursday at the Rus government residence outside Moscow.