11.   But efforts by the new council to take control of the town have proved futile.

12.   But it is now likely that that snub will have to end because members of the two parties will end up serving on the same new councils and assemblies.

13.   But its new local council, which will represent the city of Pretoria and nearby localities, will be known as the Tshwane Metropolitan Council.

14.   But the willingness of the new legislative council to endorse all his promises to Israel is coming into question.

15.   Dr. Leon Kass of the University of Chicago, whom Bush appointed to chair the new council, has kept a low profile.

16.   For another, the scope of issues to be considered by the new council is strictly limited, at least at first.

17.   He has also ordered the appointment next month of new religious councils with fewer members in an effort to restrict he number of non-orthodox representatives.

18.   He rode in from the bush with his idol and leader, the militia boss Charles Taylor, who came to assume a seat on a new ruling council.

19.   If passed by the Parliament, even employees who are leased from temporary-employment agencies could vote in elections to create a new council.

20.   In a letter to former President Clinton in December, Aristide pledged to include opposition figures in his government and appoint a new provisional electoral council.