41.   On Sunday, one witness told The Associated Press, two men on a motorcycle approached Hajjarian outside the municipal council offices in central Tehran.

42.   On Sunday, witnesses said two men on a motorcycle approached Hajjarian, who was a city councilor, outside the municipal council offices in central Tehran.

43.   On Wednesday, protesters occupied municipal offices in Ocosingo and blocked roads leading out of town during the funeral of the victim, Guadalupe Mendez Lopez.

44.   State law gives towns and cities the option of closing municipal offices to commemorate the day.

45.   Some of the federal police Friday hoisted a Bosnian flag over municipal offices, and many wore on their uniforms the Muslim-led Bosnian government insignia.

46.   Special hotlines and municipal offices throughout the country would be ready to handle complaints of unfair price increases, he said.

47.   Tamimi said Arafat also ordered Palestinian flags to be raised on the roofs of government and municipal offices.

48.   Tamazawa said the Hyogo and Osaka prefectural governments and the Kobe municipal office all were without plans to deal with major disasters and have not conducted antidisaster drills.

49.   The municipal offices were torched, and residents cornered Deputy Prime Minister Tritan Shehu in a stadium and would not let him leave for several hours.

50.   The northwest port city of Cherbourg was in mourning, with schools, municipal offices and shops closed on Monday morning.