31.  Council spokesman Carlos Sierra said both his department and the league were initially opposed to enlarging the first division, but he could not rule it out.

32.  Council spokesman Manny Dick said unless the fee is dropped, would-be immigrants from Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa will never get a chance to come to Canada.

33.  Council spokesman Keith Peacock said water cutoffs would start Monday.

34.  Council spokesman Kenneth So Wai-sang advised consumers to exercise caution if they wanted to buy vehicles from unauthorised vehicle dealers.

35.  Discount cards supplied by grocers to shoppers could be used to track individual consumers who purchased the product, said council spokesman Gregory Rowe.

36.  However, the EU council spokesman said it would extremely rare for a country to change its position in such a case at the last minute.

37.  In the West Bank, armed Israeli settlers began conducting patrols and escorts along key roads connecting settlements with Jerusalem, settler council spokesman Yeshoshua Mor-Yosef said.

38.  Israeli troops conducted searches overnight, said village council spokesman Teissir Abu Moufareh.

39.  Yet council spokesman Theodore Farber contends if ephedra were really dangerous, FDA-approved ephedrine for asthma would cause problems, too.

40.  A council spokesman said officially Sunday that the opposition was prepared to negotiate with the government but privately acknowledged that it had no intention of talks.