1.   Also joining the government will be Vladimir Bulgak, now the communications minister, and Alfred Kokh, chairman of the State Property Committee, said Chernomyrdin on television.

2.   Last May, a congressman said he was bribed to vote in favor of the legislation, alleging involvement of other legislators, government leaders and the communications minister.

3.   Since then, Venezuela has gone through two coup attempts, four changes of government and seven communications ministers.

4.   The communications minister, Reuben Rivlin, announced Monday that he was ordering hearings about the deal.

5.   The communications minister, Joao Pimenta da Veiga, said the regulatory agency should be responsible for fining the companies.

6.   The resignations occurred two weeks after tapes of secretly recorded conversations between the communications minister and the bank president were leaked to the press.

7.   The union said Netanyahu and the communications minister, Limor Livnat, had violated an agreement to consult the union first.

8.   Under investigation again are Interior Minister Horacio Serpa, former Foreign Affairs Minister Rodrigo Pardo and Juan Manuel Turbay, who resigned recently his post as communications minister.

9.   Yet Wu Jichuan, the top communications minister in China, shakes stock markets and industries with his pronouncements.

10.   Party General Secretary Anwar Hossain Manju is the communications minister in the new government.