11.   Party banners and flags were burned, witnesses said.

12.   Some Republicans called on Jeffords to resign his Senate seat, then run again in a special election without a party banner.

13.   Supporters climbed aboard cars and waved green-and-white party banners as they cruised the streets.

14.   The Brotherhood even fielded candidates in recent national elections under opposition party banners.

15.   The crowd, carrying white-and-green party banners, was guarded by a heavy cordon of Croat civilian and military police.

16.   The party renounced the legacy in changing its name last year to the National Alliance, though a splinter group of hardliners kept up the original party banner.

17.   Though Labor Party members cannot run in upcoming parliamentary elections under the party banner, they are competing as independents, he said.

18.   However, party members will be able to stand in constituencies as long as they do not run under the party banner, he said.

19.   In another sign of the changing face of French communism, the hammer and sickle emblem was conspicuously absent from party banners.

20.   Although banned from joining parliament under a religious party banner, the Brotherhood joined as independents and Socialist Labour Party members.