61.   Tehran mayor Morteza Alviri has called on the foreign ministry to decide.

62.   Swedish law stipulates that the justice ministry must decide on the fate of Deneche, regardless of any request from France.

63.   The British defence ministry decided to send the ship to the Gulf following reports that thousands of Iraqi troops were heading towards the Kuwaiti border.

64.   The defense ministry decided to extend nighttime curfew in Kangwon Province until all the eight are accounted for.

65.   The French justice ministry has decided to consider the question for itself.

66.   The interior ministry decided not to renew their residence permits when they expired and the two left in mid-October.

67.   The Jewish Agency said it had received reports that the Swiss finance ministry had decided to cut funding to the commission by a third.

68.   The justice ministry had decided in mid-October that she could be extradited to Germany to stand trial.

69.   The justice ministry will decide whether to expel him after police complete an investigation which should take three or four weeks, police commissioner Johan Grenfors said.

70.   The ministry also decided to step up anti-chemical warfare training during a civil defense corps exercises due next month across the country, a spokesman said.