61.   It is also tasked with setting up an appointed, temporary legislature to succeed the elected local assembly, which will be abolished on the handover.

62.   It will be the first time that partly-elected local assemblies will be set up in Iraq.

63.   Japanese, European and American automakers believe the Vietnamese demand for automobiles will be strong enough to warrant building local assembly plants.

64.   Jiji Press and Kyodo News said the decision was made by local assembly members from the conservative party, the biggest in the ruling coalition.

65.   Most of the exhibitors said they were willing to comply with this, even if it meant setting up facilities for local assembly.

66.   Opinion polls suggest they will be ejected from the local assembly this time.

67.   Prime Minister Smarck Michel appointed Haitians of all political stripes to his new government Sunday and promised free elections to parliament and local assemblies.

68.   Provincial elections take place in New Caledonia next week, in which the neo-Gaullists are defending a majority in the local congressional assembly.

69.   Ramos Horta also met the president of the local legislative assembly, Anabela Ritchie, as well as East Timorese activists, sources said.

70.   Scania will be the first European truck manufacturer with local assembly in Pakistan, where mostly Japanese manufacturers have been established until now.