81.   Most ministers said that the compensation package being offered by the commission was insufficient to match the price cuts.

82.   Mourning, ministers might say.

83.   No new taxes or changes in tax rates were planned, the minister said.

84.   No bank has been named to manage the bond sale, the minister said.

85.   Norway, another non-OPEC member, is expected to take part in the newly proposed reductions, the oil ministers said in a statement issued at The Hague.

86.   On a more serious note, the ethnic Hazara minister said she would like to set up shelters for traumatized women and orphanages for children.

87.   On the Israeli side, government ministers said there was an active search under way for arguments and actions that would persuade the Americans to ease their pressures.

88.   One minister said he will walk the streets all day on Election Day to tell people to vote.

89.   One Palestinian cabinet minister said a cease-fire would not include arrests of militants and would only apply to Palestinian security forces.

90.   One senior Indian minister said at the time that it was like saying al-Qaida was based in the United States because some of its members operated there.