Appearing before a skeptical and sometimes incredulous Senate panel, eight agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation today defended the procedures they used in a deadly standoff in 1992 with a white separatist that ended with the killing of his unarmed wife.

They have dubbed the case "Roby Ridge," saying it echoes the F.B.I.'s deadly standoff in 1992 at a white supremacist's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

Pakistan sought to defuse its deadly standoff with India today by calling for international monitors to be stationed on their mutual border in the disputed Kashmir region.

F.B.I. Chief Admits Errors The Director of the F.B.I., Louis J. Freeh, said he and the agency blundered badly in handling a deadly standoff in Idaho.

On June 18, the Browns host a press conference at their home with Randy Weaver, who was involved in a deadly standoff with federal officials at Ruby Ridge.

Other standouts: "East Side Story," an irresistible glimpse at vintage musical films from the Soviet bloc, and "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," a long, engrossing analysis of the deadly standoff.

Miss Vargas had just left her apartment and was on her way to deposit her paycheck at another nearby bank when she found herself ensnared in a deadly standoff on West 93d Street near Riverside Drive.

Testifying before a Senate panel investigating a deadly standoff in 1992 between Government agents and a white separatist, Federal firearms officials today defended their use of an informer to lure the separatist into a weapons violation that led to the confrontation.

The Azerbaijani Popular Front, which has widespread support among the southern republic's population, was in effect replying to conciliatory gestures made in recent days by Soviet officials who want to end the deadly standoff in the tense southern city, Baku.

Yesterday, a charred body found clutching a rifle inside the house set ablaze during the deadly standoff was identified by the police as Mr. Trim, a college dropout who had stolen a friend's van days earlier.