21.   Two junior cabinet ministers resigned.

22.   Patten is a Tory, a Catholic and a former junior Northern Ireland minister.

23.   Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday expanded his Cabinet by inducting six new ministers and raising two junior ministers to Cabinet rank.

24.   Police arrested a junior minister in Maharashtra in connection with the attack.

25.   A fourth was inducted as a junior minister after complaining he had been passed over.

26.   A junior Egyptian Cabinet minister, Mohammed Zaki Abu Amer, left Cairo with Ben Heli to represent Egypt.

27.   A junior minister in the coalition government of Prime Minister John Howard resigned Sunday after the government was embarassed by the disclosure of his shareholdings.

28.   Anne-Marie Idrac, the junior minister in charge of transportation, said Monday there was no question of touching the retirement system or of closing unprofitable lines.

29.   Another was promoted from a junior minister to full Cabinet rank after threatening to resign.

30.   Baroness Blatch, a junior minister, told the House of Lords on Wednesday that the government was considering make the act permanent, instead of discretionary.