11.   In New Delhi on Friday, Foreign Minister Kumar Gujral said India could drop its opposition to the CTBT if the controversial clause forcing it to sign was dropped.

12.   India could drop its opposition to a nuclear test ban treaty if a controversial clause requiring its signature is dropped, Foreign Minister Inder Kumar Gujaral said.

13.   In the senate, Helms ultimately dropped the controversial clause because he was short on votes.

14.   A controversial clause that would have allowed a priest who had committed a single act of abuse to remain in the priesthood was replaced.

15.   But the bill retains a controversial clause that states abortions may not be performed in military installations.

16.   Chinese legislators Wednesday dumped a controversial clause in a draft law on the elderly to force couples to look after their parents-in-law.

17.   Constitutional negotiators were still locked in discussion late Wednesday over the lockout and other controversial clauses.

18.   The US Senate Thursday approved a bill tightening the US embargo on Cuba, a day after Republican lawmakers dropped a controversial clause opposed by the Clinton administration.

19.   It said it had not approved the controversial clause inserted into the bill which sidelined new political parties before Obasanjo signed it into law.

20.   Ramaphosa said an equally controversial clause allowing lockouts had been reworded to satisfy all parties.