11.   After a brief stopover in Shenzhen, Chernomyrdin was to fly to Beijing later Thursday for meetings with his Chinese counterpart Li Peng and other top officials.

12.   After a brief stopover at the Seoul airport, the Northern delegation flew to the Southern resort island of Cheju.

13.   And it comes two years after Howard played host to Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, on a brief stopover in Brisbane.

14.   Arafat was in Cairo for a brief stopover on his way to Gaza.

15.   Belarusian President Alayaksander Lukashenka paid homage Thursday at the grave of Mother Teresa during a brief stopover in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.

16.   Bhutto met with Chirac during a brief stopover in Paris on her way home to the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

17.   Bush made a brief California stopover designed to rally U.S. troops, struggling businesses and jittery Americans everywhere.

18.   But the helicopter made a brief stopover in Kurai during the training mission, and the snowboarders offered to pay the pilots for a ride, it said.

19.   Charter flights from Miami now make a brief stopover in the Bahamas before heading to Havana.

20.   Chavez, who visited seven countries before a brief stopover in the United States, did not say when he would make his final decision.