31.   Kyodo News agency reported that top officials of the bank have agreed to accept the government request and become nationalized.

32.   Lamberth also denied on Friday a government request to end the seven-month e-mail inquiry.

33.   Last month, the United Nations turned down a Haitian government request for technical election assistance.

34.   Last Thursday, it reviewed a government request to declare unconstitutional some activities of Supreme Court Chief Judge Zef Brozi, who is threatened with being unseated.

35.   Korea First Bank and other creditors agreed to the government request, bank and government officials said.

36.   Kyodo News agency reported that top officials of the bank have agreed to accept the government request.

37.   Mark Laity, another NATO spokesman, said a Macedonian government request for a small NATO force beyond that was being discussed at alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

38.   Microsoft objected, and the justices denied the government request in September.

39.   Morauta said a Cabinet subcommittee would consider the Australian government request on Monday, adding that he was sympathetic to the request on humanitarian grounds.

40.   On Saturday, a federal judge considered a government request for arrest warrants against him.