11.   Rao delayed firing the ministers for nearly a year, saying they had done no wrong.

12.   A government minister was fired in Bangladesh on Tuesday apparently for failing to control the prices of fertilizer that led to rioting by farmers.

13.   A government minister was fired for evicting hundreds of slum dwellers in the city without giving them sufficient time to find other housing, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

14.   A spokesman for the conservative main opposition party, New Democracy, demanded that the government fire its minister in charge of public order.

15.   Although scrupulously honest, he was given to sudden mood swings, appointing and firing cabinet ministers seemingly on a whim.

16.   Bedie ignored demands he fire the minister, who also has been accused of failing to provide adequate security along the border with war-torn Liberia.

17.   Blaming Kulikov for Russian military failures in breakaway Chechnya, Lebed appeared to threaten to resign himself if the minister was not fired.

18.   But he said he is not going to fire the minister.

19.   Cardoso responded by firing two ministers hand-picked by Magalhaes and replacing them with his own loyal supporters.

20.   Ecevit has said repeatedly that he will not resign and has refused to fire any ministers over the crisis.