11.   Alexandru Lapusan replaces Valeriu Tabara as agriculture minister and Virgil Popescu takes over from Ioan Ovidiu Muntean as communications minister.

12.   Anwar Hossain Manju of the Jatiya Party was named communications minister.

13.   Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the outgoing communications minister, dismissed the idea of killing Arafat.

14.   Beni Prasad Verma, communications minister, a farmer leader, former state minister.

15.   Buta Singh, an independent politician who resigned as communications minister earlier this week, faces trial in a bribery case.

16.   Communications minister Imad Falouji, a former member of Hamas, on Saturday said he opposed the crackdown and would visit Yassin at home.

17.   Communications minister Imad Falouji, a former member of Hamas, on Saturday said he opposed the arrests and would visit Yassin at home.

18.   During a light moment in the proceedings, a half-dozen legislators jokingly begged the nominated communications minister, Ahmad Moatamedi, to fix the notoriously unreliable mobile phone network.

19.   Enis Oksuz, transport and communications minister and a key opponent of an economic recovery program backed by the International Monetary Fund, resigned in July.

20.   Former communications minister Nukul Prachuabmoh is chairing a committee seeking to reform the Bank of Thailand.