1.   President Emil Constantinescu has promised to back the demands of ethnic Hungarians for separate education in their language, ethnic Hungarian leaders said Wednesday.

2.   After his meetings with top Hungarian leaders, Solana diplomatically declined to specify any frontrunners for NATO membership.

3.   An adviser to the president, Zoe Petre, said Constantinescu and ethnic Hungarian leaders had reached an agreement but gave no further details.

4.   Bela Marko charged in a telephone interview that government officials were standing by while extreme nationalists assailed ethnic Hungarian leaders.

5.   During his stay in Budapest through Tuesday, Kono is scheduled to confer with Hungarian leaders, including Prime Minister Gyula Horn, his aides said.

6.   Ethnic Hungarian leaders asked President Emil Constantinescu on Thursday to mediate in a conflict within the ruling coalition over minority rights,

7.   Hungarian leaders said the decision would weaken the already frail opposition, fragmented by infighting.

8.   Horn said he decided not to send troops after consulting with NATO and the European Union, unnamed other countries, and Hungarian political leaders.

9.   Hungarian Jewish leaders said the list touched only a small amount of the money they believe was deposited in Switzerland.

10.   Liberals and ethnic Hungarian leaders said they were surprised by the demand.