11.   A Harvard-educated mayor with a reputation for honesty and a populist banana tycoon both claimed victory in presidential runoff in politically unstable Ecuador.

12.   A peaceful protest had been called for by opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo, who boycotted the May presidential runoff after accusing Fujimori of planning to rig the results.

13.   After defeating his Communist rival in a presidential runoff Wednesday, Yeltsin picked Chernomyrdin to form a new government.

14.   After a remarkable political comeback, Lech Walesa apparently has been vanquished by a telegenic ex-Communist in a presidential runoff that exposed lingering divisions in Polish society.

15.   Alvaro Arzu, elected to a four-year term in a presidential runoff last weekend, takes office Sunday, replacing President Ramiro De Leon Carpio.

16.   Arzu, elected to a four-year term in a presidential runoff last weekend, takes office Sunday, replacing President Ramiro De Leon Carpio.

17.   Assailants opened fire Friday on the home of a judge serving on the constitutional court, which must decide the winner of a disputed presidential runoff.

18.   Aside from the extreme right, the death has provoked outrage across the political spectrum as France readies for its presidential runoff election Sunday.

19.   Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov seized the first day of free ads Wednesday in the presidential runoff campaign to lash out at Boris Yeltsin for manipulating the media.

20.   Costa Rica held its first presidential runoff on Sunday.