1.   Senior officers could be considering a coup to restore authoritarian rule.

2.   A year later, when Yeltsin first attempted to restore Russian rule by force, the Parliament balked and got him to seek a political solution instead.

3.   Administration officials insist that they are firmly behind efforts at the Organization of American States to determine what happened in Venezuela and restore democratic rule.

4.   After the vote, Peter Mandelson, the British secretary of state for Northern Ireland, signed papers that will restore home rule on Tuesday.

5.   British Secretary of State Peter Mandelson said he reluctantly signed the papers which restored direct rule from London because the Irish Republican Army had not committed itself to disarming.

6.   But one big omission was a schedule for restoring democratic rule.

7.   His successor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, surprisingly decided to restore civilian rule.

8.   If this does not happen, the government can suspend the assembly and restore direct rule from London.

9.   If the Unionists leave the new government, London would be forced to restore direct rule of Northern Ireland.

10.   In speeches he has repeatedly promised to restore the rule of law and respect for human rights in Zaire, both virtually nonexistent under Mobutu.