11.   At the divisional meeting, Bota assemblyman Hasbollah Ismail and Che Ri Daud retained their deputy head and vice head post respectively after defeating their challengers in straight fights.

12.   Defending champion Anatoly Karpov defeated challenger Viswanathan Anand in two straight tiebreaker games Friday to retain the FIDE World Chess Championship title.

13.   Defending champions Thomas Muster and Steffi Graf defeated unseeded challengers in the second round of the French Open on Thursday, though Graf stumbled a bit.

14.   Greg Ganske, a plastic surgeon, soundly defeated Democratic challenger Mike Huston.

15.   He narrowly won re-election, defeating Republican challenger Don Clausen.

16.   He defeated two challengers, Nasir Safar and Md Yassin Ibrahim.

17.   Herbie Hide of England defeated German challenger Willi Fischer Saturday to retain his WBO heavyweight title.

18.   His China policy will be constrained by pro-human rights Democrats whose support he needs and pro-Taiwan Republican challengers he must defeat.

19.   In another title bout, Mexican Cesar Bazan defeated challenger Hiroyuki Sakamoto of Japan and retained his WBC lightweight title in a unanimous decision.

20.   In hottest race, freshman Democrat Ronnie Shows defeated underfunded challenger Dunn Lampton.