1.   Both policies could conflict with the aims of antitrust law, which considers pricing, not national security, in instructing the government when to block a merger.

2.   Wisconsin, for example, has instructed county governments to put out to bid the welfare cash program, if they cannot meet certain state standards.

3.   Facing the biggest domestic challenge to his power in nearly a decade of rule, Milosevic instructed the government to draft a law that will recognize the election outcome.

4.   Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov instructed the government Friday to step up measures to combat drug-trafficking in the central Asian republic, a presidential spokesman said.