51.   The president named Gen. Mosala Mondja Dongo as commander of the Lower Zaire region, replacing Gen. Mulumba Ambote.

52.   The president named his own appointee, who cannot work without support from the assembly.

53.   The president has named a new prime minister to replace the former government leader, who was accused of siding with mutinous soldiers.

54.   The president immediately named an acting prime minister, Vladimir Putin, the head of the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB.

55.   The president named Horacio Jaunarena, his chief of staff, to replace Lopez Murphy as defense minister.

56.   The president names one former cabinet official and one former university rector.

57.   The president can name the same person, or different candidates, but can make only three nominations.

58.   The president named Eric Edilberto Meza Duarte, who had been under-secretary general of the presidency, to replace Gonzalez.

59.   The president named Mindaugas Laurynas Stankevicius, a deputy prime minister, acting prime minister.

60.   The president named U.S.-educated economist Salim Hoss as the next prime minister of Lebanon on Wednesday.