91.   A senior administration official said the new chief deputy would be Erskine Bowles, who has been a top White House aide, replacing the departing Leon Panetta.

92.   Avturkhanov is one of three Chechens appointed to back the new Russian deputy prime minister Nikolai Semyonov in charge of Chechen affairs, replacing Nikolai Yegorov who is ill.

93.   Chernomyrdin confirmed two other new deputy prime minister appointments -- those of Oleg Sysoyev and Vladimir Bulgak.

94.   Earlier, Westmont announced a board reshuffle led by the resignation of managing director Joseph Chong and six other directors while naming Soh as the new executive deputy chairman.

95.   The new deputies might be drawn from groups of scientists, intellectuals and bureaucrats, and may include candidates who nominate themselves.

96.   Ukiwaona Ditopile Mzuzuri was became the new deputy secretary general for the mainland and John Mgeja national publicity secretary.

97.   Yeltsin named two new deputy defense ministers, the agency ITAR-TASS said.

98.   Kremlin chief of staff Anatoly Chubais was named Friday by President Boris Yeltsin as the new first deputy prime minister, Interfax news agency reported.

99.   Namibian President Sam Nujoma on Thursday reshuffled his cabinet by rotating four ministers, promoting a deputy minister and appointing a new deputy minister.

100.   New deputy prime minister with special responsibility for the breakaway republic, Nikolai Semionov, is also in Grozny.