His spokesman quoted him telling a Cabinet meeting before the announcement that "in the nation's interests" some companies should remain in state hands.

A spokesman for the department, Richard Boucher, quoted statements by Party of God officials calling for revenge against the United States.

"Freedom of assembly and freedom of speech in Bahrain have to be fully guaranteed", a spokesman quoted him saying.

"I will have to be a starter - there is no other solution," the spokesman quoted Walesa as saying.

"My captors were asleep," the spokesman quoted Mr. Glass as telling the receptionist.

"I slipped through the window and climbed down the staircase to freedom," the spokesman quoted Mr. Glass as telling the receptionist.

"I will reinitiate the fight tomorrow," the spokesman for the opposition quoted Mr. Ford as telling his colleagues.

"When life commands, when circumstances demand, each person has to find the courage and the strength to decide," the Foreign Minister's spokesman quoted him.

"He started talking to some elements in the United States and was organizing and working with them," the spokesman quoted the young Mr. Qaddafi as saying.

A spokesman at the presidential office quoted Mr. Kim as saying today that Japan's claim to sovereignty over the island was unacceptable.