21.   Those numbers match independent estimates for full battle strength for both sides.

22.   Those numbers match independent estimates for full battle strength on both sides.

23.   Those numbers match independent estimates.

24.   Independent estimates have shown most of the excess production in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries came from Venezuela, Nigeria, Gabon, Algeria and Qatar.

25.   Independent estimates showed Gulf states, key to any successful OPEC pact, were close to their quotas.

26.   Independent estimates showed violations within OPEC have pushed up actual output to nearly one million bpd above the ceiling.

27.   Independent estimates, however, put it at about twice the official figure.

28.   Independent estimates of the annual salary remittances by the overseas work force run to more than seven billion dollars.

29.   Independent estimates showed world gas demand is growing faster than that of oil as several countries are switching to gas due to increasing environmental concerns.

30.   Although independent estimates of total casualties are hard to come by, Bougainville refugees claim thousands of people died in fighting or indirectly because of the conflict.