71.   President Boris Yeltsin named a new economics minister, promoted Chubais from chief of privatization to his present post and named two new deputy prime ministers.

72.   Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday asked his new deputy to take over party management duties that had been previously handled by dissident Anwar Ibrahim.

73.   Simitis created six new deputy ministerial positions to deal with Olympics preparations, including one post to deal exclusively with security measures.

74.   Still, the retired Air Force general said in an interview that the new deputy will have a difficult assignment.

75.   The Assembly met for the new deputies to be sworn in.

76.   The compromise language in the published statement made no mention of Kim and said that the new deputy post would be subject to approval by the budget committee.

77.   The new deputy legal counsel would assist the director of legal aid in supervising and monitoring assignments, processing or conducting cases and attending inter-departmental committee meetings.

78.   The New Zealand First caucus meets Tuesday to decide on a new deputy leader.

79.   The national chairman is considered a possible stepping stone to party leader, with Lekota succeeding Jacob Zuma, the new deputy president under new president Thabo Mbeki.

80.   The other new deputy governor is expected to be an outsider, someone trusted by Chatu Mongol who can help with the re-engineering.