61.   Parliament on Thursday passed a strict language law curbing the use of any language other than Slovak and providing large fines for anyone contravening it.

62.   Parliament on Tuesday passed a law allowing the creation of a U.S.-style securities and exchange commission to oversee the Czech capital markets.

63.   Parliament passed a bill Monday creating a new agency to inspect and supervise Japanese financial institutions, taking this task away from the powerful Finance Ministry.

64.   Parliament passed a controversial reform of the national health care system late Thursday despite sharp criticism from doctors, who fear the cuts will hurt them in the pocketbook.

65.   Parliament passed a draft law last month, and Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic said he expects the final version to be adopted by mid-September.

66.   Parliament passed a law Friday giving residency rights to foreign men married to Taiwanese women.

67.   Parliament passed the bill last month, and Nazarbayev signed it Thursday, his press service said.

68.   Parliament recently passed legislation that would restrict foreign religious groups in Russia.

69.   Parliament regularly passes amnesties for those convicted of or charged with minor crimes to relieve overcrowding in prisons and pretrial detention centers.

70.   Parliament Tuesday passed a new press law which abolishes a year-old code that journalists said was aimed at muzzling the press in Egypt.