1.   A poll boycott would be a major embarrassment for the government as it would highlight opposition grievances.

2.   And armed guards were deployed in northeastern states where separatist rebels had tried to enforce a poll boycott.

3.   Police linked the land mine attacks in two places in southern and central Bihar to members of a banned communist group that had called for a poll boycott.

4.   Separatist militants have successfully called general strikes and poll boycotts on each day that Kashmir has been scheduled to vote for a new Indian national parliament.

5.   Several thousand extra armed guards were also deployed in areas of the northeastern states where separatist rebels had tried to enforce a poll boycott.

6.   And the Unified List, a five-party opposition coalition Saturday distanced itself from lingering threats of a poll boycott.

7.   Disillusionment, some analysts believe, will translate into a poll boycott rather than a vote for opposition parties.

8.   With less than a week to go before landmark Bosnian elections, a coalition of anti-nationalist opposition parties Saturday distanced itself from lingering threats of a poll boycott.

9.   Zambian President Frederick Chiluba Friday opened the first session of parliament here since his re-election late last year and dismissed the poll boycott by several opposition parties.

10.   Macedonians cast their ballots Sunday in a second round of general elections overshadowed by opposition calls for a poll boycott.