21.   Like the trial of President Clinton, the case will be heard in a special court drawn from the national legislature.

22.   Most of it will have to be carried out in practice by changes adopted in the state and national legislatures, including several constitutional reforms.

23.   National legislatures have growing roles to play in a global age, parliamentary union officials and members say.

24.   Polls showed voters inclined to reelect president Bill Clinton while giving Republicans control of the national legislature and a majority of statehouses.

25.   That kind of topsy-turvy logic could start a second post-Reconstruction movement in American politics, strangling fledgling efforts to secure a more integrated national legislature.

26.   That is a hefty expansion over the bad old days when only a handful of blacks representing black majority urban areas, had a voice in the national legislature.

27.   The Americans have argued that elections to form a national legislature and presidency in Bosnia are needed to begin the process of reuniting the warring ethnic factions.

28.   The court implied that if the law actually maximized black gains in the national legislature it would be unconstitutional.

29.   The leader of the largest opposition bloc in the national legislature, Stojan Andov, had a much gloomier prediction.

30.   The government is offering the carrot of more development funds and more representation in the national legislature, as well as the stick of more stringent law enforcement.