1.   President Ibrahim Babangida was forced to return early from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting as a result of the crisis.

2.   Among them are bars, schools, sporting events, hospitals, amusement parks, churches, airports, racetracks, courts and government meetings.

3.   But by having such a meeting at the White House, and by having it arranged by DNC officials, it turns a government meeting into a political affair.

4.   Exceptions would be in schools, polling places, bars, sporting events, airports or government meetings.

5.   Government meetings routinely open with prayer.

6.   Gore and Chernomyrdin spoke after the sixth session of the semiannual government meetings that the two men were deputed by their presidents to lead.

7.   He also helped write the Sunshine Law opening government meetings and records to the public.

8.   In Greenburgh, officials are looking into the legality of using the technology to allow Town Council members to vote during government meetings they are unable to attend.

9.   In private government meetings, civilian, military or mixed, he has the duty to speak fully.

10.   In Moscow on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin told a government meeting that Neftegorsk had turned an unhappy corner.