11.   Delegates, however, were unable to agree on proposals to allow citizens to work and lease land in other member states.

12.   Falun Gong is legal in Hong Kong under a political arrangement that allows its citizens to continue to enjoy freedoms and rights unknown on the mainland.

13.   For the first time, ordinary citizens were allowed inside the central archives of the Stasi, the former East German secret police.

14.   Hanny Megally of Human Rights Watch is skeptical Arab governments are doing much more than allowing their citizens to let off steam, noting that protesters were closely watched.

15.   In January, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso issued a decree allowing citizens and state and local governments to file lawsuits to regain land granted to Indians.

16.   Taiwan, which the mainland regards as a renegade province, has said it will not send government officials but will allow private citizens to observe the ceremonies.

17.   The other changes will allow citizens living outside Botswana to vote, and replace the government-appointed office of supervisor of elections with an independent electoral commission.

18.   But the Croat police do not allow the citizens of Mostar east free access to Mostar west and have harassed Moslem journalists attempting to report on the town.

19.   The Romanian parliament is considering legislation that would allow citizens once sought by the feared secret police to have access to their files, parliamentary sources said Thursday.

20.   Kaunda himself was barred from standing by an amended constitution which only allowed second-generation citizens to contest.