1.   Local media quoted observers as saying that the visit opened new prospects for normalizing relations.

2.   State-controlled media have been quoting a few Kosovar Albanians as saying they will vote for Milosevic.

3.   Thursday, Japanese media quoted US military sources saying that North Korea began in April conducting propulsion tests on a long-range missile that could reach Alaska.

4.   When the big-time media quote sources on the issues of the day, they are far more likely to use think tanks on the right than on the left.

5.   Other Russian media quoted unidentified Yeltsin aides as saying the same thing.

6.   Another suspect, Domenico Castellino has confessed to recruiting two gunmen to assassinate Cools, Belgian media quoted his lawyer as saying.

7.   Austrian media also quoted Chancellor Viktor Klima as criticizing experts who gave up too soon.

8.   Austrian media also quoted Klima as criticizing experts who gave up too soon.

9.   Cem called the snub insulting and Turkish media quoted Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit saying his government planned to ban EU companies from bidding for public works tenders.

10.   Chinese state media quoted Albright as telling Tang that Washington agrees China is no threat.