61.   The government regards membership in NATO and the European Union as a strategic priority, Bulgarian Premier Ivan Kostov said Tuesday.

62.   The government regards the growth target as critical in creating jobs for millions of workers being laid off from loss-making state industries.

63.   The government regards the Vietnamese as asylum-seekers not genuine refugees, and it deports those who do not return home voluntarily.

64.   The government regards them as terrorists bent on carving out an ethnic Albanian mini-state.

65.   The Lebanese government regards the militiamen as traitors and Hezbollah has called on them to defect.

66.   The government regards it as a terrorist organization, though the group, weakened by desertions over the years, says it has renounced armed struggle.

67.   The government regards the target as critical in creating jobs for millions of workers being laid off from loss-making state industries.

68.   The government regards them as mere bandits.

69.   The group wants an independent Islamic homeland, but the government regards them as bandits.

70.   The government now regards the Communist insurgency as a police problem.