1.   An adequately paid professional force would presumably overcome both problems, but Russian reformers say Yeltsin needs to do much more than issue politically palatable decrees.

2.   As the specialists broke out their calculators, Russian reformers and the World Bank clashed on a number of issues.

3.   Boris Berezovksy, a tycoon who has quarreled bitterly with Russian economic reformers, gave the former prime minister qualified support.

4.   But many Western experts and Russian reformers believe a professional Russian army is long overdue.

5.   But they acknowledge too that he has enough credibility with Western countries, free-market Russian reformers, and ardent Communists to earn grudging respect from all sides.

6.   But they say he has enough credibility with Western countries, free-market Russian reformers and ardent Communists to earn grudging respect.

7.   But where Americans see stability, Russian reformers see stagnation.

8.   De-communizing a country as hobbled as Russia has turned out to be a far more intractable process than either Russian reformers or Western analysts ever imagined.

9.   First, the contentious questions today are small potatoes compared with those of the recent past, like arms control and the very survival of the Russian reformers.

10.   Here too, progress depends on efforts by both Russian reformers and their friends abroad.