1.  Browner said Congressional action would avoid a long and cumbersome process required under EPA rule-making procedures.

2.  The two missing years, of course, are the years Jordan was missing in baseball action, or just having returned from missing in said action.

3.  Whitehead declined to say who made the complaint but said action could be taken against the licenses of the manufacturers.

4.  Beirut rejected that and said military action will not force it to change course.

5.  In Washington, State Department spokesman James P. Rubin welcomed the recommendation and said prompt action along those lines would help broaden and deepen democracy in Peru.

6.  The Security Council demanded that Yugoslavia abide by the accord to end fighting in Kosovo and said action may be needed to ensure the safety of the international monitors.

7.  Washington had set a midnight deadline Friday for an agreement on telecommunications and medical equipment and said action would be taken on sanctions without an accord.

8.  Keating said political action was needed if the report was not just to gather dust.