1.   Sony recently dismissed the chairman of its U.S. operations, Michael Schulhof, and said it would assume control over moviemaking operations from Japan.

2.   Time Warner has dismissed the chairmen of two of its five divisions within the last year.

3.   In his response, Harmoko said that only a congress could dismiss a chairman.

4.   President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakstan has dismissed the chairman of the state anti-monopoly committee who had been sharply critical of the government, a newspaper said Friday.

5.   The authoritarian Niyazov issued a decree dismissing the chairman of the Supreme Court and replacing him with the head of a regional court.

6.   President Alexander Lukashenka Tuesday dismissed the chairman of the National Bank of Belarus, Stanislaw Bagdankevich, Interfax news agency reported from Minsk, quoting a reliable source.

7.   President Alexander Lukashenko has dismissed the chairman of the National Bank of Belarus, Stanislav Bogdankevich, Interfax news agency reported from Minsk.