1.   Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route.

2.   So the interior ministry is about to haul up the white flag.

3.   The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry.

4.   The interior ministry has issued guidelines and practical advice.

5.   Four senior officials in the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries were dismissed or resigned over their role in granting him entry.

6.   No group immediately claimed responsibility and an interior ministry statement on the blast made no accusations.

7.   A Lower Saxony state interior ministry spokesman said the woman was hurt when the impact of the dummy bomb threw hard pieces of earth into her face.

8.   Also, selected airborne units and interior ministry forces in and around Moscow continue to be well supplied and trained.