It consists of pointed arches carried on octagonal piers, with bases and capitals said to date from the 12th century.

The train, with about 500 people aboard, was about 80 miles from Luanda, the capital, when it hit a mine, the state news agency said.

He was a shopkeeper in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, selling beans and beer, she said.

"We won," said a delighted delegate from the western Siberian oil capital of Tyumen.

In Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, the republic's leadership said it could agree to a release of prisoners.

People interviewed today in the capital said they still supported Mr. Gorbachev's goals for economic and political restructuring.

"Fourteen capitals down now and being suborned," Spock said.

It is the capital of the Say Department in the Tillabéri Region.

But some soldiers who are patrolling the capital said the move was overdue.

"The old capital, on the edge of the Great Desert," Sleel said.