1.   It established a monitoring mission to Estonia, where ethnic Russians, backed by the Russian government, were accusing the authorities of discriminating against them.

2.   A formal statement withdrawing from the monitoring mission may come as early as today, she said.

3.   A State Department spokesman, James Rubin, said Monday evening that Milosevic had no right to choose who would head the monitoring mission.

4.   But the United States insisted that the monitoring mission must find a way to make conditions safe enough to stay.

5.   Lars Weghagen, chief of the European Union monitoring mission in Tuzla, sharply criticized the government for this policy.

6.   S. diplomat in charge of the international monitoring mission in Kosovo.

7.   The American pilot was flying a routine NATO monitoring mission when his plane was downed by a Serbian missile near the northern town of Banja Luka.

8.   The draft plan would give a new international monitoring mission wide-ranging powers, including the right to appoint officials in the Kosovo administration and judiciary.

9.   The head of the monitoring mission, American Ambassador William Walker, reluctantly recommended their withdrawal to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday, for safety reasons.

10.   The monitoring mission is part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.