1.   Latest opinion polls show Netanyahu trailing Labor challenger Ehud Barak by some eight percent.

2.   Polls have shown Kohl trailing his challenger, Gerhard Schroeder, ahead of the national parliamentary vote just two weeks away.

3.   Barak trails challenger Ariel Sharon by a wide margin in polls.

4.   Barak trails challenger Ariel Sharon by a wide margin in opinion polls and had come under pressure to allow elder statesman Shimon Peres to run in his place.

5.   Bauer, former chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, a conservative lobbying group, trails challengers Steve Forbes, George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole.

6.   Kohl trails Social Democratic challenger Gerhard Schroeder in opinion polls.

7.   Serpa trails challenger Andres Pastrana in opinion polls.

8.   Some analysts said a summit might have helped the bleak re-election chances of Barak, who trails hard-line challenger Ariel Sharon in polls.

9.   Some analysts said a summit might have helped the bleak re-election chances of Barak, who trails hard-line challenger Ariel Sharon by a wide margin in polls.