1.   For their part, opposition leaders demanded that Mr Fujimori step down immediately in favour of a transition government.

2.   A Congolese delegation got into a scuffle with a self-proclaimed transition government of Congolese exiles who had sneaked in past security.

3.   It said a transition government, headed by Vice President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, would take his place until parliamentary and presidential elections could be held in six months.

4.   Mobutu has said that he would only be willing to form a transition government that would lead to elections.

5.   Moderate factions from the majority Hutu ethnic group agreed to the three-year transition government, but the main Hutu guerrilla forces have not.

6.   Nigeria urgently needs a civilian transition government and a date for free elections.

7.   Powell also discussed the turmoil in the region with three representatives of the transition government of Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon during their visit to Washington.

8.   Speaking from Madrid, Toledo suggested that Paniagua should lead a transition government.

9.   Speaking from Madrid, Spain, Toledo suggested that Paniagua should lead a transition government.

10.   The bill also would set the stage for a transition government in Cuba and let Cuban exiles sue to regain property they left behind.