11.   The letter mentioned Politburo member Pham The Duyet, who is in charge of propaganda, two ministers, two former ministers, and a deputy national assembly speaker.

12.   The previous crisis was over the appointment of the national assembly speaker, who was ousted in December.

13.   Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid has filed a defamation complaint against current assembly speaker Amien Rais, police said Saturday.

14.   France, the former colonial power, was represented at the funeral service by Cooperation Minister Charles Josselin and assembly speaker Raymond Forni.

15.   He also met with Prime Minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou and national assembly speaker Said Ibrahim Badoul.

16.   A source close to the negotiations said the accord would assign national assembly speaker Jean Minani, a member of the majority Hutu group, to other ministerial functions.

17.   But a former NWFP assembly speaker Masood Kausar Sunday dismissed the possibility.

18.   The session, the second in two days, was also attended by national assembly speaker Ahmad al-Saadun.

19.   The Taiwan national assembly again degenerated into violence Friday with a mass brawl to stop the election of an assembly speaker.

20.   They were former president Mahamane Ousmane, former national assembly speaker Mahamadou Issoufou and National Movement for a Development Society leader Mamadou Tandja.