31.   The amnesty, announced in an official communiqu, gave no details of the identities of those released.

32.   In Cabinet changes announced in mid-September, Juan Manuel Taveras, a Minister without Portfolio, exchanged posts with Foreign Minister Joaqun Ricardo Garca.

33.   The immediate priority of the new Aho government was therefore an economic stabilization package announced in May.

34.   A stringent new means-tested pension system was part of a radical budget package announced in July, sharply reducing health, education, housing and retirement benefits.

35.   Foreign Affairs Minister David Levi announced in the Knesset on Dec.

36.   Appointments to the Cabinet to replace other departing ministers were announced in the first week of January.

37.   No details had yet been published of an economic recovery plan which the government had announced in January.

38.   The Israeli Defence Ministry announced in mid-April that Bir Zeit University, near the town of Ramallah on the West Bank, would be allowed to reopen gradually.

39.   The appointment of a new temporary Attorney General, Blanca Nerida Goln Maguina, was announced in late May.

40.   A military agreement with France involving the sale of fighter aircraft had been officially announced in January, and a further bilateral defence pact had been reported in June.