81.   Previous efforts to put together a coalition council came to a dead end earlier this month, and the opposition factions have asked Shawa to resign.

82.   The measure, which bans any reference to religion or language, was denounced as highly restrictive by some opposition factions.

83.   The Khartoum government had no credibility, said Omar Nour Al-Dayem, the spokesman for the National Democratic Alliance, which groups the main opposition factions.

84.   The leader of a Palestinian opposition faction here Wednesday criticized PLO leader Yasser Arafat for accepting Israeli demands to close Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem.

85.   The NCIR caps dozens of resistance groups including the Mujahedeen, the main armed opposition faction.