21.   On Saturday, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise printed pictures of birthday greetings drawn by local children.

22.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sent King Hussein warm birthday greetings Monday, saying that Israel was celebrating the special day with with the Jordanian leader.

23.   She also made a terse birthday greeting to Estrada, when asked during a nationally televised news conference if she had any message for her ousted predecessor.

24.   The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Andreotti seemed moved when reading, during a ceremony in the Senate, a birthday greeting sent by Pope John Paul II.

25.   Through this column, we wish belated birthday greetings to Elisa Salapantan, whose birthday fell on Good Friday, hence, there was no celebration.

26.   In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin send birthday greetings to the virtuoso.

27.   A moved King Hussein has revealed that he received handwritten birthday greetings from slain Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin a week after the assassination in Tel Aviv.

28.   Birthday greetings from another mother were read out for her soldier son whom she had not heard from for some time.

29.   Local newspapers Monday were full of birthday greetings for Mandela from members of the public.