11.   They represented the latest outburst over government austerity measures designed to revive the economy ruined by the disastrous rule of former President Slobodan Milosevic.

12.   U.S. President Bill Clinton announced in January modest measures designed to improve contact between the American and Cuban people.

13.   Argentina has plunged into economic chaos after a popular revolt against recent belt-tightening measures designed to prevent national bankruptcy led to the resignation of its president.

14.   As the UN Security Council debates measures designed to blunt ethnic slaughter in Burundi, analysts foresee further and possibly increasing guerrilla warfare there.

15.   US President Bill Clinton signed into law Friday a measure designed to toughen penalties against economic espionage.

16.   Kenya on Monday announced belt-tightening measures designed to allow the economy to grow by at least five percent this year and limit inflation to no more than five percent.

17.   Longer term measures designed to boost economic relations with the countries of former Yugoslavia will only be considered when a peace has been implemented and other key conditions met.

18.   Last year, the CIA director proposed a plan containing a series of security measures designed to help Israel and the Palestinians to achieve a viable cease-fire.