71.   The Indian Army Saturday ruled out any possibility of sabotage in the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of a junior minister and three army officers.

72.   The four are former energy minister Khondokar Mosharraf Hossain, former mayor Mirza Abbas, former junior ministers Abdul Mannan and Goyeshwar Roy.

73.   The portfolios of junior ministers are expected to be announced later Friday.

74.   The portfolios that each minister will hold were to be announced later Thursday, and more ministers or junior ministers could be added later.

75.   The new junior ministers are expected to fill the vacancies pending parliamentary approval.

76.   The only non-Fijian was an ethnic Indian named as a junior minister.

77.   The six junior ministers belong to the National Democratic Party.

78.   Then on Friday, Lader was summoned to the Foreign Office to meet with a junior minister, Baroness Symons.

79.   This week already saw the resignations of Civil Supplies Minister Buta Singh, Arvind Netam, a junior minister for agriculture, and Textiles Minister Kamal Nath.

80.   Tony Baldry, a junior Foreign Office minister, said radio contact with the missing six had been established Friday in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital.