11.   Gen. Nikolai Kulikov, a deputy to Pankratov, was appointed acting police chief, the Interfax news agency said.

12.   James DeBates, acting chief of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an inquiry by the agency.

13.   Lloyd Forde, acting customs chief, said Thursday the department is prepared for a longhaul battle with the auto dealers.

14.   Mohamad Ameran had been acting division chief.

15.   Police said the body of Galina Borodina, acting administrative chief of the Moscow regional administration, was found by her driver.

16.   Tenet has been acting CIA chief since December, when John Deutch stepped down in a presidential transition shuffle.

17.   The department named Andrew Lourie, a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorneys office in Miami, as acting section chief.

18.   The two were hospitalized, said Guner Ozmen, acting chief of security.

19.   President Boris Yeltsin fired his tough reformist acting central bank chief, Tatyana Paramonova, and named Khandruyev as interim acting chairman Wednesday.