61.   Last week, Privatization Minister Wieslaw Kaczmarek said he might consider suspension of the privatization process next year until the pension reform is ready.

62.   Labor leaders have suggested putting off pension reform until the end of the year.

63.   Lower taxes, promised by Chirac, pension reform and an increase in defense spending are also on the agenda.

64.   Mauro Guerra, a deputy from the dissident group, said they backed the idea of pension reform but would seek some modification in the Dini plan.

65.   Miners in southern Poland held a warning strike Monday to protest pension reforms and vote on whether to call a general strike.

66.   Prodi resigned for a few days after hardline Communists, who give his coalition a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, refused to back him on pension reform.

67.   Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek said the government has already approved health, and pension reforms, and is preparing to overhaul the education sector.

68.   Rozlucki stressed that a planned pension social security reform, which will require the creation of pension funds, will also contribute to the success of the capital market.

69.   Schroeder has succeeded in dividing the opposition to pass tax and pension reforms, but conservative leaders have dismissed his chances of doing so this time.

70.   The government says that without pension reform the whole system will collapse in a few years.