1.   His party, Golkar, replaced him with its chairman, Akbar Tanjung, who is also the parliamentary speaker.

2.   Mehdi Karrubi, the parliamentary speaker, exemplifies the new spirit of confrontation.

3.   The document laid out a plan to brand deputy parliamentary speaker Petra Buzkova as a child abuser and former prostitute.

4.   The parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung said Wahid has proposed replacing Sabirin with one of two deputy governors who are relative newcomers to the bank.

5.   The parliamentary speaker said the session to vote Wahid out of office would proceed within hours.

6.   The race is between the parliamentary speaker, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri and Mohammad Khatami, who is also a clergyman.

7.   The suspicion, therefore, must be that Hariri did not want to lose his present edge in the contest between president, prime minister and parliamentary speaker.

8.   This left the untested Paniagua, next in the line of succession as parliamentary speaker, to reunite Peru and oversee a new presidential election next April.

9.   When Putin refused, parliamentary speaker Gennady Seleznyov stepped in.

10.   Peres met with Palestinian parliamentary speaker Ahmed Qureia and a Palestinian economic adviser in New York, where the Israeli minister is attending the World Economic Forum.