1.   He said the former president might join the chorus of high-ranking Republicans and former government officials urging Powell to join the ticket.

2.   The self-styled Leader of the New Republic refused all attempts at negotiation by the former government.

3.   He was the first member of the former government to face criminal charges.

4.   His complicity with the former government had led to his downfall.

5.   In the course of the hearings it emerged that a number of other former government officials had been paid for lobbying on housing developments.

6.   A series of prominent former government leaders and various other Western political figures visited Iraq during November to seek from Saddam Hussein the release of those held hostage there.

7.   The Liberal Party withdrew from the Charter for Reform and Democracy on the grounds that it was too closely linked with the structures of the former government.

8.   In January ETA itinerant commandos had killed three soldiers, a policeman and a former government minister in four attacks in Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia.

9.   The opposition had asked for the nullification of an amnesty decree passed by the former government on those who had committed offences during the May protests, including Suchinda.

10.   The protestors claim the support of a former Brazilian government minister sacked for his strong stand on the environment.