31.   The new U.S. ambassador to Romania Thursday praised democratic progress in the former communist country, but said economic reforms must be sped up.

32.   The revised government work report is expected to devote a lengthier passage to speeding up reform in the financial and banking sectors.

33.   Yastrzhembsky blamed both problems on the former government, which Yeltsin fired in March and replaced with a younger team instructed to speed up reforms.

34.   Yeltsin wants to speed up reforms and has repeatedly refused to bring Communists into the government.

35.   Workers complain that government efforts to speed corporate reforms are causing thousands of staff cuts.

36.   Yeltsin, meanwhile, wants to speed up reforms and has repeatedly refused to bring Communists into the government.

37.   To that Prime Minister Zhan Videnov replies that if the BSP wins the presidency the government can speed up reform because it will hold all the levers of power.

38.   The Egyptian government and the International Monetary Fund are at odds over demands to speed up reform and devaluate the Egyptian pound.

39.   The government planned to speed up reforms, especially privatisation in the key oil and gas sectors, he said.

40.   The leaders of Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Portugal, and Venezuela urged Castro to speed democratic reform.