11.   The UDSP is headed by Etienne Tshisikedi, the main political foe of President Mobutu Sese Seko and a proponent of negotiations.

12.   Their main foes, the Social Democrats, reached the second round in eight districts.

13.   Yandarbiyev has sacked government officials who worked as advisers to his main foe, the former prime minister Aslan Maskhadov, Russian news agencies reported.

14.   Franco-British businessman Sir James Goldsmith put his anti-European Referendum Party on the offensive Sunday, clubbing his main political foes with blunt newspaper advertisements.

15.   The Congress reacted sharply to the move in Uttar Pradesh by the BJP, its main political foe.