21.   On Friday he told a press briefing the Russians had not been endangered.

22.   On Friday he told the daily Magyar Hirlap that he would try to increase the number of his informers within the underworld.

23.   On Wednesday he told the Egyptian Al-Mussawar newspaper he would try to get Mahfuz declared a heretic and ordered divorced from his wife.

24.   On Monday he told his own network he would hold to the current laws.

25.   On Sunday Deuba told a NC meeting that Koirala had done him an injustice by expelling him when he was trying to contain the Maoists.

26.   On Monday Ganci told television that political leaders had plotted to frame Andreotti, who is currently standing trial for alleged collusion with the Mafia.

27.   On Monday he told AFP that his forces would crush the counter-offensive.

28.   On Saturday Abdullah told AFP he expected Asasabad to fall within days, but recent heavy rain in eastern Afghanistan appears to have slowed progress.

29.   On Saturday Kwik told a party gathering the country faced political disarray and bankruptcy as it could no longer control its own fate.

30.   On Sunday Deuba told the NC meeting that Koirala had done him an injustice by expelling him when he was trying to contain the Maoists.