11.  Victory in the Gulf War made Iraq the most powerful state in the Gulf.

12.  It was a lonely and arduous reign, over a tiny nation sandwiched between such powerful states as Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria.

13.  On Sunday, some of the defectors returned to the BJP fold, leaving the public confused as to who actually had control over the politically powerful state.

14.  Russian Communists and other hard-liners also are lauding the charter, saying it signals the inevitable return of a powerful state that the Soviet Union once was.

15.  Rather than real peace, he said, Arabs and their governments have settled for surrender to the more powerful Jewish state.

16.  Two out of three staffers cited U.N. bureaucracy as its weak point, while one-third said the control exerted by powerful states was its drawback.

17.  He will also have talks with the chairman of the powerful state planning committee, Do Quoc Sam, and meet British businessmen here.