21.   Hunzvi, who is also a ruling party legislator, spurred followers to carry out the violent occupations, personally leading many of them.

22.   In a surprise vote before dawn, ruling party legislators passed the law without opposition members present.

23.   In Nairobi, an agreement between opposition and ruling party legislators on a series of crucial legal and constitutional reforms raised hopes that tensions could ease.

24.   It was approved in a secretive, pre-dawn parliamentary session attended only by ruling party legislators.

25.   It was passed by ruling party legislators in a seven-minute, secret pre-dawn parliamentary session, with no opposition members present.

26.   It was passed without any debate in a seven-minute, secret, pre-dawn session, attended only by ruling party legislators.

27.   It was rammed through Parliament before dawn that day by ruling party legislators, with no opposition members present.

28.   Japanese stocks advanced Wednesday, buoyed largely by reports that some ruling party legislators were calling for injection of public funds into real estate to stimulate the economy.

29.   Lazarus Nzarayebani, a ruling party legislator for the eastern city of Mutare, had pleaded innocent to assault charges and said he would appeal the ruling.

30.   More ruling party legislators were expected to break way.