31.  President Abdur Rahman Biswas, the highest official in Bangladesh, dissolved Parliament.

32.  Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia said the highest officials in the Palestinian Authority, including Yasser Arafat, would oversee the talks.

33.  Pelletreau was met at the airport by Lancene Moussaoui, the second highest ranking official in the Algerian Foreign Ministry.

34.  Peng did not imply that coercive measures would be abandoned, but she is the highest level official to declare a shift in family planning tactics.

35.  A Naples cardinal was acquitted of loansharking and taking church funds Friday, in a case involving the highest ranking church official to ever stand trial in Italy.

36.  Abdullah, who is in Iran to attend the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference, is the highest Saudi official to visit Tehran since the revolution.

37.  Abu-Shukhaidem replaced at the last minute the highest Waqf official, the Mufti Said Sabri.

38.  Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the highest Serbian official in the province blamed ethnic Albanians.

39.  Another sign of adapting to the new reality comes from Anson Chan, the highest official of the outgoing colonial regime to keep her job in the new government.

40.  As the highest Norwegian official on the remote protectorate, the Svalbard governor has broad police and public safety powers.