41.   EU ministers said they would continue to press Iran over alleged support for terrorism.

42.   Federal Cabinet ministers have said the Canadian government will act to erase all legal differences between homosexual and heterosexual couples.

43.   Government ministers say that foreign companies can be enticed to bid, especially for the state-owned energy companies that are a big part of the privatization program.

44.   He noted that the Mexican oil minister said Wednesday in Paris that he favored a production increase.

45.   His oratory is quieter, several ministers said.

46.   His mainline Methodist minister says he is a nondogmatic moderate.

47.   However, a Fort Worth minister said he is set to vote for a boycott if it is recommended.

48.   His security minister said there would be bloodshed.

49.   I so much as heard a minister say once that that is, in fact, how congregants should see him.

50.   If approved, it will be presented to the full Cabinet on Tuesday, the minister said yesterday after a U.S.-government sponsored seminar on the Thai economy.