21.   According to Gamila Moussa, the deputy Egyptian health minister, Pfizer has applied for permission to sell the pills in Egypt.

22.   After four years as a partycrat, Chernomyrdin jumped again to become deputy minister of the gas industry.

23.   After enough horse-trading, Segev became energy minister and Goldfarb deputy housing minister.

24.   Alexander Kulikov, deputy interior minister, also acknowledges that new kinds of economic crime are flourishing in the new market economy, giving the police significant difficulties.

25.   But he defended the appointment of a warlord implicated in human rights abuses to the post of deputy defense minister.

26.   But Kushner said he had spoken recently with a deputy minister in South Africa who suggested that the country had too many economic problems to underwrite a fight.

27.   But Mokaba, the former deputy minister of tourism, says growing numbers of people are eager to hear what he has to say.

28.   But they did so in telephone conversations with a different deputy finance minister, who apparently knew little about the Gaxiola case.

29.   Chung In Yong, a former deputy minister of the economy, will meet with bankers in New York today to discuss financing options, Kim said.

30.   Churbanov had been a lieutenant colonel in the police when he met Ms. Brezhnev and was promoted to post of chief deputy interior minister soon after their marriage.