11.   Three people were injured in two other election-related clashes, polling officials said.

12.   Bad weather had paralyzed shipping movements so military helicopters were mobilized to fly ballot boxes, voting forms and polling officials to the islands.

13.   One citizen polling official was unimpressed by the display of government force and the rebel threats.

14.   Opposition activists set off bombs and clashed with police here Monday to disrupt a meeting poll officials three days ahead of parliamentary elections, witnesses said.

15.   Polling officials across Simbu were also threatening to withhold ballot papers, claiming their allowances have not been paid in full.

16.   Tarman also charged that UN officials administering the August ballot were not neutral, saying that only pro-independence activists were recruited as polling officials.