21.   Peres met into the early hours Saturday with Palestinian parliamentary speaker Ahmed Qureia and a Palestinian economic adviser in New York, and said talks will continue.

22.   A delegation led by a parliamentary speaker on Wednesday was fired on by the rebels they were trying to meet.

23.   Abdul-Latif Arabiat, a former parliamentary speaker and secretary-general of the front, was elected head of the Shura Council.

24.   A third candidate, former parliamentary speaker Kastriot Islami, withdrew from the race earlier in the day.

25.   Angry opposition legislators held the parliamentary speaker captive again Monday to block a controversial spy bill which they claim is aimed at suppressing political dissent.

26.   Authorities increased security around the parliament building and the main state administration building in the capital, Tbilisi, said Georgian parliamentary speaker Zurab Zhvania.

27.   At one point, Ruml criticized Zeman for allegedly offering the communists the post of parliamentary speaker in exchange for supporting the minority Social Democratic government.

28.   Authorities point to success stories of Kurds, including late President Turgut Ozal and current parliamentary speaker, Hikmet Cetin.

29.   Both he and parliamentary speaker Gennady Seleznyov, who is also a Communist, reiterated their longtime demand for Yeltsin to resign.

30.   But outgoing parliamentary speaker Dumitru Diacov said he was less certain.