21.   Vorobyov said he had treated former Soviet communist party chiefs Yuri Andropov and Constantin Chernenko, as well as former defence minister Dmitri Ustinov.

22.   Major General John McColl was to meet senior Afghan figures Sunday, possibly including the new interim leader Hamid Karzai and defence minister General Mohammad Qasim Fahim.

23.   Military, police and intelligence chiefs joined Rabin, who is also defence minister, at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv.

24.   Peres, who is also defence minister, is to be completely in control of security issues.

25.   Peterson was formerly defence minister, and will be replaced by the current trade minister, Bjoern von Sydow.

26.   Peres, who is also defence minister, rebuffed calls from several ministers for an immediate large-scale operation in Lebanon, military radio said.

27.   Rabin, who is also defence minister, decided on August as a compromise.

28.   Rabin, who is also defence minister, met Chief of Staff Ehud Barak who has the power to commute the sentence.

29.   Rabin, who is also defence minister, submitted the request to the Finance Minister Avraham Shohat.

30.   Rabin, who is also defence minister, will hold talks with French Prime Minister Alain Juppe and Foreign and Defence Ministers Herve de Charette and Charles Millon.