21.   Radio and TV stations led bulletins with the news, Syrian television interrupted its programs.

22.   Some devoted their broadcasts to the situation in the Palestinian territories while others interrupted their programs with news flashes on the latest events.

23.   Sex scenes have virtually disappeared from state TV, which interrupts programs to broadcast the five daily calls for prayer in this nominally secular country.

24.   State-run radio and television interrupted their programs to say that the first batch of Iraqi pilgrims had left for Mecca.

25.   State television interrupted its programs for an unusual live broadcast of the coronation.

26.   State-run television interrupted programs to show his plane landing at Saddam International Airport.

27.   Syrian television interrupted its programs to break the news.

28.   There was little sense of urgency and no regular programs were interrupted.

29.   Nicaragua, another country where sports programs have been interrupted by politics, has just one serious chance of a medal in Atlanta -- in baseball.

30.   Radio stations interrupted programs with announcements telling motorists to pull their vehicles over to the roadside and the public to head for underground shelters.