21.   Earlier this month, Panday fired two ministers from his Cabinet, while another resigned.

22.   First, a Russian newspaper helped get the defense minister fired.

23.   Handling of the hostage crisis and the war prompted the parliament Friday to demand that Yeltsin fire his ministers in charge of the army and security forces.

24.   He fired Cabinet ministers from parties that supported his election as president, and alienated the powerful military by publicly challenging senior generals.

25.   He refused to say which ministers would be fired.

26.   Her subsequent attempts to force Vajpayee to fire his ministers were blackmail tactics, her critics said.

27.   Her critics have accused her of resorting to blackmail attempts to force Vajpayee to fire some ministers.

28.   In an interview with Israel TV, Netanyahu said he would fire Cabinet ministers who opposed him.

29.   In one case, a junior minister was fired and expelled from his party last November when police recovered his passport from the house of a suspected drug smuggler.

30.   In October, Yeltsin offhandedly announced plans to fire the minister, a soft-spoken intellectual whose bashful smile came to symbolize the new image of Russia abroad.