51.   But the head of the Labour parliamentary group Raanan Cohen ruled out a national unity government.

52.   The threat came in a letter from the head of the Labour group of MEPs, Pauline Green, to British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.

53.   US Vice President Al Gore held talks with powerful South African labour groups here Saturday to discuss investment and environment issues, officials said.

54.   Last week Pouchen was one of five Nike suppliers named in a report released in New York by labour activist group Vietnam Labour Watch for labour abuses.

55.   Last month several foreign-invested Vietnam factories supplying US sportswear maker Nike were named for alleged labour abuses by a New York-based labour activist group.

56.   Raanan Cohen was re-elected Monday to the post of president of the Israeli parliamentary Labour group, sources close to Cohen said.

57.   Rabin, addressing his Labour parliamentary group on Monday, said Israel could survive without Palestinian workers by replacing them with foreigners.

58.   The parliamentary Labour group was due to meet Sunday at a Dublin hotel for emergency talks on whether to withdraw from the coalition.