1.   Air pollution is so bad in Mexico City that authorities may forbid residents from driving their cars two days a week.

2.   Now even that rare measure has become impossible since the authorities forbade all irrigation.

3.   Until now Chinese authorities have forbidden any commemoration of the protests that began in Tiananmen that May and ended in a scattered series of bloody confrontations.

4.   Will Mississippi school authorities forbid Christian students their crosses because they resemble satanic symbols?

5.   German soccer authorities Saturday forbid a CLT-UFA subsidiary from investing in more than one German professional soccer club for fear of influencing matches.

6.   Israeli security authorities have forbidden Israeli civilians from entering Palestinian-ruled areas and say they may enter jointly controlled zones only with an army escort.

7.   Romanian authorities forbid fishing for flounder until the end of the breeding season in May.

8.   Freetown authorities forbade the vessel from docking, saying they first wanted to screen the passengers.

9.   At Jalalabad, near Kabul, the local authorities have forbidden women to work except as nurses, doctors or teachers for other women, the spokesman said.

10.   State authorities also forbade Chrysler from re-selling returned vehicles for three years.