1.   After that, suspects deemed to be an ongoing risk to national security can be incarcerated indefinitely by the home affairs minister.

2.   The economic affairs minister announced limits on petrol sales.

3.   Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish home affairs minister, said the penalties for carrying knives would be the toughest in Britain after the changes.

4.   Buthelezi remains the home affairs minister.

5.   Claes was economic affairs minister at the time and signed the contract with Agusta.

6.   France was represented instead by Mrs. Veil, the social affairs minister.

7.   Human rights activists and even high-level government officials, like the European affairs minister, Pierre Moscovici, called for his prosecution.

8.   Lamassoure had served as European affairs minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, whom Chirac defeated for the presidency last May.

9.   Seven meetings have been held between the new external affairs minister, Jaswant Singh, and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.