1.   He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war.

2.   And Russian officials denied bombing the orphanage and accused secessionist rebels here of turning their own weapons against the city.

3.   Basayev was the leading field commander during the war in which a bunch of poorly equipped secessionist rebels humiliated the Russian army and evicted it from Chechen soil.

4.   In southern Sudan, the secessionist Christian rebels favored by the West have been strengthened in their struggle against Moslem Khartoum by the steady flow of relief supplies.

5.   Lebed has been seeking unsuccessfully for weeks to meet with Yeltsin to explain personally his efforts to end the conflict with secessionist rebels in Chechnya.

6.   Meanwhile, fighting between Serbian government forces and secessionist ethnic Albanian rebels continued.

7.   Thursday is the deadline the Russian President, Boris N. Yeltsin, has given for the secessionist rebels in Chechnya to lay down their weapons.

8.   Pakistan denies its troops are involved and says the fighters are secessionist Kashmiri rebels from India.

9.   Ramos is also credited with bringing about robust economic growth as well as a peace settlement with Muslim secessionist rebels.

10.   A day after President Boris Yeltsin effectively put Lebed in charge of the war, the former paratroop general met with leaders of the secessionist rebels in Chechnya.