In 1917, in response to the U.S. Navy's plan to build an additional ten battleships and six battlecruisers, the Diet authorized a further three battleships; and in 1918 the Cabinet authorized another two battlecruisers.

Mr. Netanyahu's Cabinet authorized the closings, asserting that the offices - a maps department that monitors Israeli settlement activity, a liaison office with foreign diplomats and Mr. Husseini's office - were linked to the Palestinian Authority.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine authorized V. Baloha to be the Head on Ukrainian part of several joint intergovernmental commissions for cooperation issues.

In one case, the report said, the Cabinet authorized an unusual $340,000 payout to the commander of a secret police unit when he was discharged.

Today the Cabinet authorized him to negotiate the purchases with companies it named as leading bidders.

She also stated that Cabinet had authorized her and the Minister for Ethnic Affairs to pursue with representatives of the families of the early settlers a form of reconciliation which would be appropriate to and of benefit to the Chinese community.

LEAD: The Spanish Cabinet authorized the state-owned Iberia Airlines to buy the 48 percent stake in charter airline Viva Air currently held by West Germany's Lufthansa.

The Cabinet authorizes a modest increase in the Royal Navy budget based on the assumption that there might a war with Japan sometime within the next decade, through constraints imposed by the Great Depression limit how much money will be spent.

I'm not certain we still could, even if the Cabinet reversed itself and authorized us to.