31.   On Friday a sub committee of the GATT is to make a recommendation on the site to the WTO preparatory committee.

32.   PLO chairman Yasser Arafat has recently set up a preparatory committee to establish a Palestinian Housing Bank to make cheap loans available, he said.

33.   Some preparatory committee members are currently meeting in Beijing.

34.   The new party will undoubtedly take direction from Ichiro Ozawa, who heads the preparatory committee tasked with creating it.

35.   The New Democratic League, the splinter group led by former SDP chairman Sadao Yamahana, launched a preparatory committee for a new party last week.