The AP World Service operates on Greenwich Mean Time GMT and begins each 24-hour cycle at 0000 GMT. Listed below are key elements of the news service transmitted on all circuits unless otherwise noted: 0000 GMT Opener Advisory USING THE AP WIRE Advisory AP News Digest AP Sports Digest By 0100 GMT AP Top Financial News Tuesday through Saturday 0300 GMT AP Asian News Digest Advisory Asia only By 0500 GMT U.S. seasonal sports roundup 0700 GMT AP News Digest 0600 GMT summer time AP Asian News Digest Asia only By 1000 GMT Asia Business Briefs Asia Europe Mideast southern Africa 1100 GMT AP News Digest 1000 GMT summer time 1200 GMT AP News Summary AP Asian News Digest UPDATE Asia only 1300 GMT AP Sports Digest 1200 summer time AP Top Financial News 1400 GMT AP Europe Advisory Europe only 1430 GMT Africa Briefs except Asia 1500 GMT AP World Graphics Advisory Middle East Business Briefs By 1600 GMT Global Weather 1800 GMT AP News Digest 1700 GMT summer time AP World Graphics Advisory 2100 GMT US-Canada-Business Briefs 2200 GMT Pronouncers Advisory pronunciations of names places in the news 2300 GMT AP World Graphics Advisory 2330 GMT Latin America Briefs Europe Americas ---- Other fixtures: Feature stories slugged FEA are listed at the bottom of each AP News Digest. Three packages on the 0000 GMT digests emphasize specific subjects: business on Tuesdays; science on Thursdays; arts and entertainment on Sundays. ``Editorial Roundup'' excerpts of editorials from newspapers around the world. Thursdays around 1600 GMT. ``AP Weekly News Calendar'' a list of significant news events expected in the upcoming week. Sent early in the GMT cycle each Friday and updated late in the cycle with U.S. events and again Mondays. ``AP Weekly Sports Calendar'' a list of sports events expected in the coming week. Early in the Friday cycle. ``Today in History'' a list of historic events for each day transmitted early each weekday about one week in advance. ``US-Top Ten'' in Friday early GMT cycle the top popular songs in America each week. Theme slugs are used to identify some stories: SCI - science discoveries innovations; CYBER - computer technology; MED - medicine/health discoveries innovations; ARTS - arts/entertainment; TRAV - travel enterprise; FEA - general features; ANALYSIS - analytical backgrounders. Sports - used on all sports stories. Category codes are used on all stories to enable computerized sorting: ``i'' on general news or feature copy; ``f'' on financial stories or fixtures: and ``s'' on sports stories. APW19981201.0945.txt.body.html APW19981201.0546.txt.body.html