11.   Burdzhanadze said the price increase would allow Georgia to ensure sufficient grain imports until the Georgian government frees bread prices later this year.

12.   Burmese opposition groups say they will continue fighting until the government frees all political prisoners, abolishes repressive laws, and starts dialogue on national reconciliation.

13.   But Empey noted that the Irish government freed nine prisoners Tuesday in its latest gesture to the IRA truce.

14.   But in an unexpected move, the military-led government freed Sharif from jail and sent him into exile in Saudi Arabia.

15.   Estrada said the government was trying to authenticate an apparent FARC communique saying Betancourt would be held until the government freed detained guerrillas.

16.   Even so, the government has freed hundreds of political prisoners in recent years as part of eased policies.

17.   For lack of evidence, the government has freed three former soldiers arrested on subversion charges, Radio Metropole reported Monday.

18.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze promised on Monday that the government would free the younger brother of Milan soccer star Kakha Kaladze from his abductors.

19.   He steadfastly stuck to demands that the government free hundreds of jailed rebels.

20.   He still must be able to appoint a government relatively free of powerful Milosevic allies but tolerated by them.