41.   Creel, the interior minister, is perhaps the most prominent political figure in the National Action Party after Fox.

42.   Daniel Vaillant, another close associate of Jospin and the current minister for relations with Parliament, was named the new interior minister.

43.   Deri, a charismatic former interior minister of Moroccan descent who built Shas into a powerful legislative bloc, was convicted of taking bribes at the interior ministry.

44.   Earlier this month, Natan Sharansky, the Israeli interior minister, visited to see the situation firsthand.

45.   Earlier, the ailing president had failed to back Lebed unequivocally against rivals and critics led by Anatoly Kulikov, the interior minister.

46.   Fahd is a Sudeiri, as is Prince Nayef, the interior minister, and Prince Salman, the governor of Riyadh.

47.   Even so, Ceno said Berisha was pressing for the appointment of his campaign manager, Azem Hajdari, as the new interior minister.

48.   Fernando Cepeda, a former interior minister and a columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo, agreed.

49.   Few doubted that the timing of the charges, delivered in Parliament by the interior minister, Andrzej Milczanowski, was masterminded by Walesa.

50.   Following his recent assertions about the bombing, the interior minister was questioned by Congress.