11.   After the brief swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace, Begum Zia, the widow of Maj.-Gen.

12.   Rebel jets bombed the Miraflores presidential palace, police stations, and other key installations.

13.   At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.

14.   At the presidential palace some ministers were said to have wept in the cabinet room.

15.   Almost two months after the fall of the Chechen presidential palace, Grozny is an unrelieved vista of devastation.

16.   Also Wednesday, Wahid said he would end the standoff with his successor by vacating the presidential palace Thursday to seek medical treatment in the United States.

17.   American troops arrived at midday around the presidential palace, an impressive white building with wide lawns in an area of statues of national heroes set in scruffy parks.

18.   Although the U.N. teams have returned to Baghdad, the inspectors are still pressing for access to all restricted sites, including six presidential palaces in the capital.

19.   And his commitment to peg the sucre to the dollar now appears unlikely, as he battles two other contenders for the presidential palace.

20.   And President Abdur Rahman Biswas had to fire the army chief a few days later after tanks and soldiers surrounded the presidential palace.