31.   The IMF, which is overseeing a vital bailout package for Indonesia, demanded the government slash the subsidies on necessities that have aided poor Indonesians for years.

32.   The opposition pulled out of key tax reform talks and miners stopped work and occupied plants Friday to protest government plans to slash subsidies for the coal industry.

33.   Thousands of farmers last week also protested against EU plans to slash subsidies for tobacco production.

34.   Thousands of farmers protested Monday against European Union plans to slash subsidies for tobacco production.

35.   To help attract foreign investment and please the West, Constantinescu must slash government subsidies to money-losing state industries.

36.   Virtually all Soviet-style subsidies were slashed.

37.   German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reached a deal with trade unions on Thursday on a controversial plan to slash subsidies to the coal industry, government officials said.

38.   Muoi defended the record of state firms, which generally have performed poorly with many barely surviving since the government began slashing subsidies.

39.   Sri Lanka plans to slash subsidies to meet the mounting costs of its protracted war against Tamil Tiger separatists, President Chandrika Kumaratunga said in remarks published Thursday.