1.   Authorities began evacuating people in the state of Oaxaca as the hurricane battered villages with high winds and intense rain.

2.   Health authorities have already begun to restrict services, most commonly removal of tattoos and cosmetic surgery.

3.   The authorities began to make the necessary arrangements for taking over the garrisons, which were still in the hands of the enemy.

4.   The authorities have begun to issue ration cards.

5.   The Soviet authorities meanwhile began what commentators described as a war of nerves against Lithuania.

6.   Outside, the military authorities began enforcing an undeclared night-time curfew.

7.   The new authorities began to detain FIS activists including a number of imams.

8.   A warning was also given that beach charges might prove inevitable if the government and water authorities did not begin a serious campaign to eliminate sewage pollution.

9.   The French and Italian authorities have begun work on turning the Strait of Bonifacio, the channel between Corsica and Sardinia, into a marine park.