111.  Shinshinto President Ichiro Ozawa, after meeting with counterparts from the three ruling coalition parties, said the parties agreed to resume normal Diet activities, the paper said.

112.  Separately, the ruling coalition parties are scheduled tomorrow to release their own proposal to reform the ministry.

113.  Should Bertinotti withdraw his support for the government, votes would have to be found elsewhere to ensure that the ruling coalition stays in power.

114.  So a divided opposition could be beaten by a determined member of the ruling coalition.

115.  Still, the passage of those bills is uncertain because some legislators in the ruling coalition oppose the provision calling for taxpayer money to help deal with thrift failures.

116.  Stoiber last week called on the CSU to quit the ruling coalition if the CDU supported a softening of qualification targets.

117.  That is because neither the administration nor the ruling coalition parties have answered the key question of why taxpayers should have to pay for dealing with the jusen companies.

118.  That party is now part of the ruling coalition, and its leader, Devlet Bahceli, is deputy prime minister.

119.  That was a sharp contrast to more prominent opposition leaders, like Zoran Djindjic and Vuk Draskovic, who had negotiated with him or even joined his ruling coalition.

120.  The agreement by the ruling coalition and Shinshinto must be characterized as an expedient to ward off public outrage.