51.   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has fired his ministers of education and irrigation, Baghdad radio said Monday.

52.   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Monday fired the ministers of education and irrigation, a day after he urged bureaucrats to fight corruption.

53.   But the no-confidence vote is not binding, since only the Russian president can decide to fire a minister.

54.   Under the Russian constitution only the Russian president can decide to fire a minister.

55.   Under the Russian constitution however, only the Russian president can decide to fire a minister.

56.   On Tuesday, Lebed said that he had just stifled a plot by generals to put pressure on Yeltsin after he fired defense minister Pavel Grachev.

57.   President Bakili Muluzi has said he would not fire the ministers nor amend the constitution to define the status of an independent MP.

58.   President Pasteur Bizimungu also named a new cabinet after firing four ministers -- three Hutus and a Tutsi -- on Tuesday.

59.   The former finance minister was fired for mishandling the peso crisis.