1.   He was succeeded by Michio Ochi, a former economic planning minister.

2.   Jorge Giordani, the planning minister and hitherto a defender of the pegged exchange rate, said that prices will now be held in check by fiscal restraint.

3.   Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian planning minister, said that Arafat had told him he planned to run for president.

4.   Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian planning minister, said Arafat had told him he planned to run for president.

5.   The Brazilian planning minister agreed.

6.   Among the papers was El Mundo, whose new director is Teodoro Petkoff, a former Marxist rebel and government planning minister.

7.   But his economic planning minister appeared to contradict those remarks.

8.   Emmanuel Kasonde was named finance and national planning minister and former finance minister Katele Kalumba was named foreign minister.

9.   Ginandjar Kartasasmita, the national development planning minister, also expressed concern over the fall of the dollar against the yen.

10.   He travelled with Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian planning minister and chief negotiator with Israel.