21.   Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said his government was extending the cease-fire to provide Norway time to facilitate a cease-fire.

22.   And Guatemalan President Alvarzo Arzu will reiterate his request that the U.S. government extend a temporary amnesty for some illegal immigrants from the region.

23.   Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said last week his government will not extend the cease-fire despite mounting pressure and threats to withdraw the U.N. peacekeeping forces.

24.   But foreign businesses which counted on the tax breaks objected, and the government extended the deadline.

25.   Chinese Civil Servants Association president Peter Wong Hyo said the government should extend this type of training to middle level civil servants.

26.   Environmental protection efforts had helped restore dwindling fish populations here, and two years ago the government extended electricity to Nueva Venecia for the first time.

27.   Government will extend credit to rice and corn farmers to enable them to accelerate planting with the recent arrival of rains, a senior official said yesterday.

28.   He also called on the government to extend the voter registration period.

29.   He also demanded the government extend the deadline for voter registration past the end of July, citing a shortage of materials in areas loyal to the opposition.

30.   He also demanded the government extend the deadline for voter registration past the end of this month, citing a shortage of materials in areas loyal to the opposition.