11.   Skate said he would sack any minister found guilty of corruption.

12.   The other ministers were sacked a day later.

13.   He appoints and can sack ministers, who are answerable only to him.

14.   He pointed out that Tung had repeatedly said motions of no confidence passed by the Legislative Council would not necessarily lead him to sack his ministers.

15.   His comments were an apparent reference to recent demands by opposition parties that all cabinet ministers implicated be sacked forthwith.

16.   It was the first time in contemporary Mexican history that a president sacked a minister within one month of taking power.

17.   A Zambian deputy minister was sacked Friday after allegedly killing a Lusaka lawyer in a bar fight the Thursday evening, the presidential office said.

18.   Arjun Singh had earlier threatened to resign if Rao did not sack three ministers linked to corruption scandals.

19.   Concern that France might hold up the entire single currency programme were voiced by sacked finance minister Alain Madelin.

20.   Congress sources said Arjun Singh told a party meeting Tuesday he would quit the cabinet if the tainted ministers were not sacked.