21.   Amaral this week made a key concession, averting a threat by Gusmao to withdraw his candidacy.

22.   Cameroon sent another government minister to California on Thursday to seal a near one-million dollar pay settlement to avert strike threats.

23.   China said the program, which also included mechanical pest-killing methods, had gone a long way to averting the threat of disaster.

24.   English Rugby League managed to avert the threat of a breakaway by elite clubs Wednesday.

25.   To avert the threat of military actions Turkey recently made several attempts to persuade Baghdad to abide by UN resolutions, but has failed to break the Iraqi resistance.

26.   Major western cigarette manufacturers who fear a blanket ban on advertising in the gigantic Russian market have drawn up a code of practice to avert that threat.

27.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a final push Sunday to bring far-right hardliner Ariel Sharon into his cabinet and avert the threat of a government crisis.

28.   The Israeli government finally agreed Sunday to create a new infrastructure super-ministry for hardline nationalist Ariel Sharon, averting the threat of a cabinet crisis.