21.   The PLO executive committee has named Mahmud Abbas, the main Palestinian architect of the peace process, as its secretary-general, official sources said Wednesday.

22.   Nor does he appear worried about the rupture with Maroni, the main architect a year ago of the accords with Forza Italia.

23.   Ricke was seen as the main architect of the conversion of a great bureaucracy into an operation with a commercial statute.