1.   Both the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary groups have declared cease-fires.

2.   A man associated with the Nation of Islam picked a verbal fight with a rabbi, and the group declared the day a failure.

3.   Business groups had declared the election of the incumbent justices a priority, while unions and trial lawyers had begun gathering a war chest for the Democrats.

4.   Corsican nationalist groups declared that Paris was trying to destabilize the island and had ordered the fire to pin the blame on the separatist groups.

5.   Environmental groups also declared victory.

6.   In Athens, a bomb exploded at the Peruvian Embassy, in what a leftist group declared to be an act of solidarity with the guerrillas.

7.   Leading national reform groups declared Wednesday that only the Shays-Meehan bill is acceptable.

8.   Recently the ELN group declared oil installations and contract workers in the Cupiagua field in Eastern Colombia military targets.

9.   The Anschutz group declared the deal dead in mid-June because of political opposition in Los Angeles.

10.   The group declared themselves major radio fans, with particular affection for Don Imus, contemporary music and public radio of all kinds.