1.   He has filled all his cabinet positions and appointed the chiefs of most federal agencies except the CIA and FBI.

2.   Yunas still claims the title of district chief because, he says, he has received no official notification that a new chief has been appointed.

3.   Boccardi said that a bureau chief would be appointed shortly and that the AP hoped to have the office open within weeks.

4.   It also enables the majority in parliament to fire and appoint the chiefs of the state media, an opportunity the Socialist party has used.

5.   Khatami, however, has no control over the broadcast network, whose chief is appointed by the hard-line supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

6.   Lukashenko appointed chief of general staff, Lt. Gen. Alexander Chumakov, the acting defense minister of the former Soviet republic, the report said.

7.   The chief was appointed by the Islamic-oriented government.

8.   The judiciary is not an independent body in Iran, and its chief is appointed directly by Khamenei.

9.   Two days before an election to replace him, President Joaquin Balaguer appointed new chiefs of army and police, including a retired general accused of human rights abuses.

10.   World Food Program officials said the problem began when the government appointed village chiefs to register displaced persons.