41.   Australian Wheat Board chairman Trevor Flugge said Wednesday the board was confident the government could handle any political problems with countries to which it sold wheat.

42.   But Rasmussen admitted that the government had handled the matter badly, provoking errors of judgement and misunderstandings.

43.   The strike appears to be going nationwide as health workers in other towns joined in to express their displeasure at the way the government has handled the crisis.

44.   The Dini government is still handling daily affairs.