51.   Chechen separatists launched a pre-dawn attack on Russian troops holding a bridge in the devastated city center, Chechen information minister Movladi Udugov told the Interfax news agency.

52.   Foreign correspondents would be able to work in the country only after being accredited in advance by the information minister and only to cover specific news events.

53.   Four Dutch citizens have been detained in Yugoslavia on suspicion of plotting to assassinate or abduct President Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav information minister said Monday.

54.   Gen. Hartono, who retired as army chief of staff, was installed as information minister last week.

55.   He said the information minister of the Kosovo self-styled government met last week with NATO commanders in Brussels, but provided no other details.

56.   However, the information minister has the final word on determining which sites should be banned, he added.

57.   However, the name he gave was not the information minister, but a lower level spokesman for the Taliban.

58.   If the High Court rules against Chimutengwende, a former information minister, he could be disqualified under electoral law from holding any political office for five years.

59.   In Baghdad, Iraqi information minister Hamid Yusuf Hammadi denounced U.S. involvement in the talks.

60.   In his first statement as information minister, Hartono nimbly skirted the amendment issue invoking the authority of the President instead.