1.   Members of seven parties making up the Union for Democratic Renewal, a newly formed opposition alliance, refused to join the government.

2.   One seat fell vacant pending a by-election after Baumet resigned to join the government.

3.   Also joining the government will be Vladimir Bulgak, now the communications minister, and Alfred Kokh, chairman of the State Property Committee, said Chernomyrdin on television.

4.   And Nemtsov told reporters Monday that his decision to join the government might turn out to be political suicide.

5.   Any politician who accepted these principles, he said, was welcome to join his government.

6.   Barak called on Ariel Sharon, the right-wing opposition leader, to consider joining his government.

7.   Before joining government, he spent five years at the firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz and Mendelsohn.

8.   Before Hussain joined the government, he was a prominent and outspoken journalist.

9.   After Barak retired from the army earlier this year, Rabin named him interior minister and he joined the government in July.

10.   Businesses should join governments in more aggressive efforts to fight AIDS, they said.