21.   Not all the guns were given to people on the reservist list, the source said, and some were distributed specifically to members of the ruling government party.

22.   Officials with the ruling Taliban government had said there were no injuries, but hospitals in the capital said they treated six people.

23.   Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez appointed three new ministers to his cabinet Friday, a shuffle triggered by resignations over a spying scandal that has shaken the ruling Socialist government.

24.   South Korea had fought against the ruling Hanoi government during the Vietnam War.

25.   The country was torn by violent conflict between a ruling government elected earlier this year and opposition parties who claimed the election was rigged.

26.   The current fuel crisis has become politically charged with the opposition Nigeria Labor Congress warning the ruling military government not to hike petrol prices.

27.   The ruling military government never allowed the overwhelmingly pro-NLD parliament to convene.

28.   The ruling Nationalist government, badly beaten by invading Japanese, had retreated from its capital in Nanjing to this inland city.

29.   The reshuffle, however, caused a rift in the ruling government coalition of Solidarity Electoral Action and Freedom Union.

30.   The ruling military government has been criticized for its human rights abuses, secret military tribunals and for playing with the national media by floating misleading information.