11.   For example, the minister of public works and housing, Rakad bin Salem bin Rakad, also is acting oil minister.

12.   Gen. Igor Sergeyev, the head of the strategic rocket forces, was appointed as acting defense minister.

13.   Gen. Mikhail Kolesnikov had served as acting defense minister after Grachev was sacked.

14.   In a separate decree signed Friday, Yeltsin fired Agriculture Minister Alexander Nazarchuk and appointed Vice Prime Minister Alexander Zaveryukha as acting agriculture minister.

15.   Mahathir named himself acting finance minister last week after he fired Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was also deputy prime minister.

16.   Now, Mahathir is acting finance minister.

17.   On Sunday, Labor party secretary-general Raanan Cohen took his post as acting labor minister, a post vacated by Shas leader Eli Ishai.

18.   The government, which holds a controlling stake in UES, is said to be backing Vladimir Kudriavyi, acting deputy minister of fuel and energy.

19.   Yeltsin named Gen. Mikhail Kolesnikov, chief of the general staff, as acting defense minister.

20.   Yeltsin named general staff chief Mikhail Kolesnikov as acting defense minister.