1.   Intense gunfire broke out for about an hour near the government palace in central Algiers soon after the decree was announced, Agence France-Presse reported.

2.   Elsewhere, U.S. Army engineers assisted in trash collection, while Haitian workers put fresh paint on the government palace and other government installations.

3.   Fujimori attended a ceremony today at which representatives of Shell, Mobil and Perupetro signed contracts in the government palace in Lima.

4.   Fujimori made many promises, as he doodled on a piece of paper in a wood-paneled office in the government palace.

5.   In the recent interview at the government palace in Lima, Fujimori dismissed such scenarios as sour grapes by the opposition.

6.   Security in most foreign government palaces is very tight and usually controlled by the armed forces.

7.   The members of the Northern Ireland Assembly were elected last June and have already held meetings in their ornate refurbished chambers in the imposing Stormont government palace in Belfast.

8.   Police used tear gas against one barricade near the government palace, but failed to break it up.

9.   Police were out before dawn Wednesday erecting barricades of sand bags and barbed wire around the government palace.

10.   A ruling party governor took office peacefully Saturday as riot police guarded the government palace and thousands of protesters demanded new elections.