And he gave a cautious endorsement to the Bush administration's proposal to cap the liability of the insurance industry on claims from future terrorist attacks.

The group, the Canon Law Society of America, gave a cautious endorsement of such a step as "desirable" for the United States.

The candidates themselves emerged briefly from seclusion to issue cautious endorsements of the constitutional process, but neither side seemed to rule out an extended legal or political struggle.

Bernal gave a cautious endorsement to the idea, adding that it would require a great deal of investigation.

Volkswagen, which said it learned of the plan only over the weekend, offered a cautious endorsement.

So far, though, the proposed measures have received only cautious endorsement from industry executives, while civil-liberties and privacy groups say they are worried that the bills would enable the Government to decode scrambled transmissions.

As to a meeting last week in Moscow between Mr. Modrow and Mr. Gorbachev, the Soviet President for the first time gave a cautious endorsement for a discussion of reunification.

China offered a cautious endorsement.

The latest jump in short-term interest rates, along with the four that have preceded it this year, won a cautious endorsement today from President Clinton.

Among American abortion rights leaders, many of whom practice a policy-oriented form of activism, she received a round of cautious endorsement but little in the way of financial help.