11.   In fact, the Communist Party has used the anniversary to justify its continued monopoly on power in Vietnam.

12.   Some are using the anniversary to get their message across.

13.   The leadership is worried that people upset over unemployment, stagnating incomes and corruption might use the anniversary to whip up sentiment against the party.

14.   With unemployment growing and incomes stagnating, Chinese leaders do not want democracy campaigners using the anniversary to stir up the disaffected.

15.   In recent weeks the regime has used the anniversary to appeal to Vietnamese to rally behind the communist party.

16.   But Mai said Vietnam had no intention of using the anniversary to rub salt into wounds that have festered for two decades.

17.   The two countries are using the anniversary as an opportunity to take stock and define their ties for the next half-century.

18.   Supporters of rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev said they planned to use the anniversary to stage new anti-Russian protests.

19.   Supporters of Dudayev had said they planned to use the anniversary to stage new anti-Russian protests.