11.   It was left to Vaclav Havel, the Czech president and former dissident, to try to reconcile the demands of protesters with the money controlled by the ministers.

12.   Kim, a former dissident jailed by previous South Korean regimes, has spent much of his first year in office trying to rebuild a collapsed economy.

13.   Koszeg, a former dissident, says that as a member of Parliament and lawyer, he is the last one to condone spying.

14.   Like several other former East German dissidents, Ms. Poppe turned down chances to pursue a political career.

15.   President Kim Dae-jung, a former dissident whom the former agency had tried to kill, has vowed to stop the new agency from domestic spying.

16.   Peng Ming-min, a former dissident and an intellectual, is the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party.

17.   Sergei Kovalev, a former anti-Soviet dissident, who leads the parliamentary commission on human rights and is now in Grozny, has angered Yeltsin with his accusations.

18.   The former dissidents often attract large audiences when they speak in western Germany, and they are regularly quoted in newspapers throughout the country.

19.   The Hungarian president, Arpad Goncz, a former dissident and playwright, urged U.S. senators not to worry that American soldiers might die in the defense of Budapest.

20.   The minister is Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident who had been jailed in and later expelled from Russia.