1.   The government regards housing as a basic need.

2.   It appeared that sympathetic foreign governments regarded exports to Lithuania to alleviate the Soviet blockade as diplomatically contentious.

3.   A spokesman said that the French government regarded the whole issue as closed.

4.   But both countries also agreed to take steps to prevent the use of violence in clandestine departures, which the Cuban government regards as an illegal act.

5.   But in the same breath they acknowledge that the government regards the camp leaders as killers and will not negotiate with them.

6.   Despite the costs, the Mexican government regards the photovoltaic method as the best for providing power to remote dwellers and has undertaken an aggressive rural solar program.

7.   Indeed, both cigarettes and alcohol have always been regarded by governments as marvelous sources of taxes.

8.   Is the United Nations now to allow Israeli cars along a road which the Lebanese government regards as theirs?

9.   It may be a menace to little Taiwan, which the Chinese government regards as a renegade province and vows to reclaim.

10.   Maybe the Israeli government truly regards Barghouti as a terrorist now.