31.   Rep. Corrine Brown said the governor and state officials could not be trusted to oversee a system admitting enough minority students.

32.   Severe flooding in a southern Cambodian town has killed two children, the provincial governor said Thursday.

33.   They also said the governor of Nangarhar province, Haji Abdul Qadir, had fled to Pakistan and that one of his allies had defected to the Taliban.

34.   Weng said some governors, who now are not elected but appointed by the Interior Ministry, had become very rich handing out infrastructure contracts in their provinces.

35.   Flood waters had destroyed several homes, said the governor, Kutlu Aktas.

36.   In Sohag, also a province in the south, three people were killed and nine others injured in flooding, said the governor, Mohammad Hassan Tantawi.

37.   Three people were arrested in the operation, said governor Senol Engin.

38.   The mass defections were mainly because of government military pressure, cutting off guerrilla supply lines, said the governor.