31.   Mandela appointed Slovo housing minister in his Cabinet, entrusting him with the job of realizing ANC promises to build houses for millions of blacks impoverished by apartheid.

32.   Mandela demonstrated his respect for Slovo by making him housing minister, in charge of the one of the most important portfolios in the first post-apartheid government.

33.   Marina Matulovic-Dropulic was relieved of duty as housing minister.

34.   State radio and television announced Saturday that the former housing minister was arrested after police sleuths received information of a plot to assassinate Mrs. Kumaratunga.

35.   The housing minister was touring the region as part of efforts to rebuild Jaffna City, which was once the rebel capital.

36.   The housing minister, who is in charge of rebuilding the war-shattered peninsula, had just ceremonially opened a sales outlet of the building corporation in Jaffna.

37.   The Israeli housing minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, said he was ready to give the group the benefit of the doubt.

38.   The Palestinian housing minister, Agha, said the Palestinian authority would back Palestinian demonstrators trying to stop bulldozers at new construction sites.

39.   The report was critical of the Housing Ministry, nominally headed by Netanyahu, but in fact run by Meir Porush, the deputy housing minister.

40.   The South African government has drafted new laws aimed at boosting its powers to act against land invasions following clashes with squatters, the housing minister said Monday.