21.   Yeltsin to dismiss defense minister.

22.   Yeltsin, who has the constitutional power to appoint and dismiss ministers, indicated he had selected a new prime minister, but did not name him.

23.   But the lower house does not have the power to dismiss government ministers or to oblige the government to take an issue to the UN Security Council.

24.   The proposed constitution would give the president full executive powers to appoint and dismiss ministers, and prevent parliament from removing the president from office.

25.   It said the response to this warning had been to dismiss the minister.

26.   Nine ministers were dismissed Wednesday in a radical slimming down of the rump Yugoslavia government, the Tanjug agency said, saying the move was intended to promote efficiency.

27.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday threatened to dismiss any minister who demonstrates opposition to his meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

28.   The constitutional measures would give the president full executive powers to appoint and dismiss ministers, and prevent parliament from removing the head of state from office.

29.   The draft would give the president full executive powers to appoint and dismiss ministers, and prevent parliament from removing the head of state from office.

30.   The constitution gives the president powers to appoint and dismiss ministers while depriving parliament of the authority to remove the head of state from office.