21.  The Nobel Peace Prize-winner was scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and leaders of German political parties.

22.  He expected the German parliamentary parties then to meet on the issue Friday.

23.  He was meeting in Bonn Wednesday with Russia experts in the German parliament and ministries and having talks with leaders of the German parliamentary parties.

24.  After that, interested German parties would be given pre-emptive right to buy the shares within the next three years.

25.  Der Spiegel said the organisation had set itself the objective of penetrating German political parties.

26.  The deputy leader of the opposition Social Democrats, Guenter Verheugen, resigned as party manager Friday, throwing wide open a deepening crisis in the German party.

27.  The CSU initiative has been opposed by almost all other German parties, including the Christian Democratic Union with which it is allied in government at the federal level.

28.  The German party had showed itself divided earlier Wednesday too on a proposal to introduce referendums of the whole party membership.