51.   In a joint declaration, the employers agreed not to implement the cut while the IG Metall union agreed to suspend protest strikes.

52.   In a joint declaration, the metal industry employers agreed not to implement the cut while the IG Metall union agreed to suspend protest strikes.

53.   Indian authorities placed thousands of security personnel on alert in Srinagar after Moslem separatists called for an immediate protest strike.

54.   Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda arrived in the Kashmir Valley Saturday on a path-breaking visit that triggered a protest strike by Moslem separatists, officials said.

55.   A protest strike, called by the mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah, led by PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, closed shops and business in the Ramallah area on Wednesday.

56.   A protest strike shut down this Kashmir summer capital on Thursday as leaders of the Kashmiri Moslem separatist movement accused the Indian government of planning to assassinate them.

57.   A protest strike called by Moslem separatists Friday crippled the Kashmir Valley, as Indian troops searched for a passenger bus hijacked by Moslem militants, police said.

58.   A similar protest strike was held in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where Palestinian refugee from the popular committees also drew up a message for the UN secretary general.

59.   As Palestinians in Hebron observed a protest strike called by Islamic radicals, Arab children earlier on Thursday hurled rocks at soldiers, who made five arrests.

60.   Border Security Force troops in battle fatigues fanned out across the city as a protest strike paralysed life here and in other towns in Kashmir Valley, witnesses said.