51.   Apart from Longuet, communication minister Alain Carignon and development aid minister Michel Roussin had to quit the government.

52.   Berluconi quit the government last month following the collpase of his coalition.

53.   But DSS ministers last year quit the government of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in protest at alleged corruption.

54.   But sources close to Papathemelis said he had quit the government after refusing to send in riot police against the farmers.

55.   But the left-wing opposition, centrist parties and the Northern League, which quit the government last week, want a nonpartisan government of technocrats.

56.   Despite his comments, Meretz showed no signs of quitting the government while Rabin was insisting that he would never go back on the confiscations.

57.   The Northern League has repeatedly threatened to quit the government if the premier failed to distance himself from his media-based business empire, Fininvest.

58.   The others who quit the government are the education, social affairs, economy, and transport and communications ministers.

59.   The Socialists quit the government when a rival voting bloc, led by LDP defectors, was created to alienate leftists in the largely conservative coalition.

60.   Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri arrived in Damascus Sunday for make-or-break talks on his political fate after his decision to quit the government.