51.   Gayssot and the other transport ministers, speaking after a meeting with the Airbus management, said they agree.

52.   Germany will press ahead with plans to build a high-speed magnetic levitation train despite rising costs and new studies predicting fewer passengers, transport minister Matthias Wissmann said Friday.

53.   Germany will press ahead with plans to build a high-speed magnetic levitation train despite rising costs and new studies predicting lower earnings, transport minister Matthias Wissmann said Friday.

54.   Friction between the two NATO allies mounted Wednesday when Greece complained Turkish fighter jets buzzed a civilian plane carrying the Greek transport minister from Cyprus to Athens.

55.   Habib Ammar, the ambassador to Austria and a former interior minister, was named transport minister.

56.   He said Germany would vote in favor of the project at a meeting of EU transport ministers at the end of March.

57.   He served as transport minister, deputy Knesset speaker, deputy finance minister and coalition chairman under former premier Yitzhak Shamir.

58.   He was named transport minister and deputy prime minister.

59.   He replaces Andi Meister, a former Estonian transport minister, who resigned from the commission in July.

60.   He will chair a similar meeting in Dakar, Senegal for western and central african transport ministers.