11.   Interior Minister Natan Sharansky walked among throngs of Palestinians who had waited all night to enter his ministry Tuesday, many hoping to regain revoked Jerusalem residency permits.

12.   They set up special checks for people entering government ministries and blocked off Kasumigaseki station.

13.   There were sporadic clashes between demonstrators and police who blocked them from entering the ministry and one protestor had to be hospitalised, ADEDY said.

14.   Leotard entered the ministry of culture and later became defence minister under Balladur.