11.   Tourism Minister Uzi Bar-Am said that a government majority supported barring Palestinian workers from Israel on a long-term basis.

12.   However, the specter of such an accord faced staunch opposition among the new government majority in Jerusalem.

13.   Analysts have widely predicted a victory for the main opposition Labour Party, that would reduce the government majority in the House of Commons to just one vote.

14.   The recent pressure on the lira has been due mainly to political uncertainty and tensions within the government majority.

15.   Opponents of the outgoing premier want a new government majority to be found without recourse to a general election.

16.   Sterling was weak, depressed by a by-election in England on Thursday that is likely to reduce the government majority in the Commons to one.

17.   Thai Premier Chuan Leekpai gained political breathing space on Sunday after King Bhumibol Adulyadej approved a new cabinet line-up securing a government majority in the Thai parliament.

18.   The defection comes in the wake of a successful Labour conference last week and reduces the government majority from nine seats to a more precarious seven.

19.   The government majority voted for the bill, the communist group against, and the socialist group abstained.