11.   Another passenger was the Dagestan treasury minister, Abdu Samat Gamidov.

12.   Before becoming treasury minister under Berlusconi, Dini held the second-highest job at the Bank of Italy.

13.   Ciampi, a former treasury minister and an internationally respected banker-politician, was sworn in as president a week ago.

14.   Critics, including the treasury minister, say the proposed restructuring risks crippling Telecom Italia by robbing it of its most profitable arm.

15.   Dini, a former treasury minister and central bank official, won approval from the Cabinet for the package in the atmosphere of a financial crisis.

16.   He held the post until May, when Berlusconi named him treasury minister.

17.   He was appointed to succeed Berlusconi -- who had brought in Dini as treasury minister -- as a neutral, interim leader with a limited program.

18.   In Warsaw, riot police used truncheons to break a sit-in protest by several dozen miners and shipyard workers who occupied the office of the treasury minister.

19.   Marian Krzaklewski, the Solidarity leader, said the treasury minister and deputies were working on a draft that would satisfy both sides.

20.   Newspapers have revealed that the former deputy treasury minister, Enrique Gimenez-Reyna, had money invested in Gescartera and his sister was one of its senior managers.