21.   Blood supplies to hospitals improved late Sunday as a government call for donations received an overwhelming response, according to Elizeu Siueia, director of the Maputo Central Hospital.

22.   But unions are resisting government calls to make a no-strike accord for the World Cup.

23.   Duque on Monday reiterated government calls for French nationals to leave.

24.   The scene was repeated throughout the towns of the eastern province of Usulutan, as residents ignored government calls to cancel the strike.

25.   The sports officials ignored a government call for the football programme to continue on fears that halting it might only serve to provoke more violence.

26.   The sports officials ignored a government call for the sports programme to continue for fear that halting it might provoke more violence from unhappy football fans.

27.   The union cancelled a strike due to start a week ago in response to government calls for a strike-free World Cup football tournament.

28.   Thousands of schoolchildren across Swaziland heeded a government call to return to classes Tuesday but on arrival at their schools were turned away by striking teachers.

29.   Police fired teargas at thousands of striking nurses in the capital Wednesday after they defied a government call to return to work or face dismissal.

30.   That is the deadline for responding to a French government call for tenders for privatization of the group.