1.   This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS.

2.   The publication of the letter, signed by Madani Mezerag, the national chief of the Islamic Salvation Army, was accompanied by official commentary praising his courage.

3.   Two Chinese Communist Party-backed papers stuck with wire stories and carried no official commentaries, however.

4.   A strongly worded official commentary singled out Lee for encouraging an independent Taiwan.

5.   An official Chinese commentary has accused Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui of attempting to provoke and coerce the nationalist island into following a separatist path.

6.   China issued a strongly worded official commentary which singled out Lee for encouraging an independent Taiwan.

7.   Meanwhile, official commentaries in state-run newspapers continued to criticize Aung San Suu Kyi and to question her credentials to be a national leader.