31.   Mother Teresa, the dimunitive Albanian-born nun, last year publicly encouraged President Bill Clinton to change his stand on abortion.

32.   Moi later changed his stand after his comments sparked a storm of protest, saying Kenya would fully cooperate with the tribunal.

33.   Opposition parties had threatened to sue the government for delaying the subsidy but changed their stand after they were assured that the money would be released.

34.   President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called Tuesday for a united Yemen, but said Iran could change its stand depending on the will of the Yemeni people.

35.   Sheikh Saad also called upon countries which sympathized with Baghdad during the crisis to state loud and clear that they had now changed their stand toward the Iraqi leadership.

36.   Swaraj said some of the regional parties were likely to change their stand and back the BJP administration during a scheduled confidence vote in parliament next week.

37.   Syria has repeatedly charged that the accord is aimed at pressuring it to change its stand in its stalled peace negotiations with the Jewish state.

38.   Syria warned Tuesday that the Middle East summit in Washington will be a waste of time unless Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu changes his stand on the peace process.