41.   The post had gone vacant for nearly seven months while the Vatican vainly sought a Swiss nobleman for the post to keep up with a tradition.

42.   The post has automatically gone to his challenger, Mohd Hadzi Nordin.

43.   The post went to former Spanish foreign minister Javier Solana, whose term as NATO secretary-general ends at the end of the year.

44.   The post went instead to Likud Party veteran Dan Meridor, but Netanyahu made Frenkel head of the new economics council.

45.   The third post went to Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa.

46.   Three posts went to ethnic Tajiks from the opposition northern alliance, which seized Kabul last year after the Taliban fled the city under relentless U.S. bombing.

47.   Unstated but certainly implied was concern among developing countries that the post would go to a national of a rich nation.

48.   He had reportedly wanted to head the delegation, but that post went instead to Senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani, the sister of President Fidel Ramos.

49.   He denied rumors that the post would go to pro-market former prime minister Yegor Gaidar.

50.   Information Minister Jawad Anani told journalists on Saturday that the post could go to Israel Chief-of-Staff Ehud Barak.