1.  Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said that the city's Work Experience Program, the largest welfare employment initiative in the country, was not intended to replace permanent workers.

2.  Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat defended the administration's policy, arguing that the frozen assets of a terrorist country can be a significant bargaining chip in international relations.

3.  Dennis is the hottest thing to hit Chicago since Al Capone, and he now stops traffic all over the country.

4.  Denver discovered music when he went to his grandmother's farm in Oklahoma, where he played guitar and listened to country balladeers on the radio.

5.  Denver extended his touring circuit to Communist countries.

6.  Cuba has about 3,000 people who are HIV positive, which is a low percentage for a country of 12 million.

7.  Cuba is doing quite well in its economy so far this year and the flow of foreign investment into the country has not stopped.

8.  Cuba is the only Spanish-speaking country in Latin America that has not hosted a papal visit.

9.  Cuba watchers say progress, though incremental, had been made toward normalized relations between the two countries.

10.  Cuba, a poor country, would have to either pay in cash or secure a loan from a foreign bank, probably at high interest rates.