1.   Arif is a prominent member of the deposed Afghan government who has lived legally in Virginia for a number of years.

2.   In city after city, radical Revolutionary Committees, fanatically loyal to Chairman Mao, formed to replace deposed governments.

3.   Tarar, the ousted president, was a figurehead appointed by the deposed civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

4.   Dostum, who has formed an alliance with the deposed government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, also has been trying to open negotiations with the Taliban Islamic army.

5.   Deposed government retakes strategic military base.

6.   Farhadi represents the deposed government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, whose faction dominates the opposition northern alliance that now controls Kabul and about half the country.

7.   Hospitals struggled to care for a rush of casualties from heavy fighting north of the capital Saturday between Taliban Islamic fighters and soldiers loyal to the deposed government.

8.   On Monday in northern Afghanistan, the powerful warlord Rashid Dostum met members of the deposed government and leaders of smaller minority groups.

9.   So far the Taliban leadership has refused to accept the deposed government in negotiations.

10.   Soldiers loyal to the deposed government halted the advancing Taliban army, broke through its lines and pinned down some of its forces in ferocious fighting north of Kabul.