21.   Thirty congregations have decided to join the new Lutheran association even before the convention, Chavez said.

22.   Diedrich heads the Collegium for African American Research, a new association of European academics.

23.   Eight Muslim nations inaugurate new association.

24.   He noted the creation on every continent of new regional associations, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.

25.   He offered no details on the workings of the new association.

26.   He said the new association had been created to gather information on the killings in Algeria.

27.   Holocaust survivors from nine European countries have formed a new association to advocate their interests, an official of the group said Monday.

28.   IOC member and Russian Olympic Committee president Vitali Smirnov was elected president of the new association.

29.   Nair, honorary secretary of FHRAI, says the new association sends out a wrong message -- that the hotel industry does not speak in one voice.

30.   The new association was named for the late Manuel Marquez Sterling, a Cuban journalist and diplomat.