11.   Opposition legislators held the parliamentary speaker captive for the second time in as many days Tuesday to block the ruling party from voting a controversial spy bill into law.

12.   Parliamentary speaker Amien Rais recently called on the armed forces to separate the warring groups.

13.   Parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Tkachenko said the legislature was drafting a bill that would confirm the moratorium on the death penalty.

14.   Parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Tkachenko said Tuesday that President Leonid Kuchma would implement the budget, which envisages a cut in the deficit, by decree.

15.   Other top candidates include Communist Party chief Petro Symonenko and Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, a former parliamentary speaker.

16.   Parliamentary speaker and leader of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, Vaclav Klaus, said he would oppose it.

17.   Parliamentary speaker Federico Trillo announced that debate and a vote on investiture will begin Friday and likely conclude on Saturday.

18.   Parliament is expected to confirm Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi and parliamentary speaker Pjetar Arbnori for second terms Monday.

19.   Parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung on Saturday warned Wahid not to dissolve parliament.

20.   Parliamentary speaker Gennady Seleznyov set off alarm bells in Russia and the West when he claimed that Yeltsin had already ordered the missiles to be targeted.