1.   Farrakhan defended the gift Tuesday and said he would mount a vigorous fight if the government bars it.

2.   Other bondholders are weathering the storm, betting that Columbia is too large a health-care provider for the government to bar from Medicare and Medicaid programs.

3.   She watched as the government barred the religious from joining the Communist Party, thus denying them access to the best schools and jobs.

4.   Since then, the Iraqi government has barred U.N. inspectors from returning, demanding instead that sanctions be lifted immediately.

5.   The company said last week that new or higher dividends were unlikely as long as the government bars it from raising the electricity rates.

6.   The German government has barred Scientologists from membership in major political parties and placed the organization under surveillance.

7.   The government has barred the defendants from communicating with all outsiders except their lawyers and family members.

8.   The government barred Kosovar students from entering university buildings, and introduced a new curriculum using the Serbian language and Serbian versions of history.

9.   The government has barred the teen-ager, who escaped from China last year, from going to Sikkim.

10.   The Irish and British governments have barred Sinn Fein from the talks until there is a new cease-fire.