21.   Mahathir agreed an hour later to stay only after officials and party delegates mobbed and pleaded with him.

22.   Premier Costas Simitis was re-elected Sunday as leader of the governing Socialists, but more than a third of the party delegates snubbed the vote in dissent.

23.   Scrutinized by party delegates, election officials used scissors to break seals on ballot boxes in Mombasa, an exercise repeated throughout the nation.

24.   Several hundred rightist groups staged an anti-communist demonstration outside the building where the party delegates were convening.

25.   Scrutinized by party delegates, election officials used scissors to break seals on ballot boxes Tuesday in Mombasa, an exercise repeated throughout the nation.

26.   Some party delegates vented their anger at government appointees who had blamed them for holding up the results.

27.   State radio said party delegates unanimously agreed Mugabe should stay on as leader of the party and the nation until whites have been stripped of most of their land.

28.   The fact that the resolution was passed in a package of dozens approved at the convention came as a surprise to Cayetano and many party delegates.

29.   The mood was buoyant among the party delegates, clad in their trademark peach-colored collarless jackets and green and black checkered sarongs.

30.   The party delegates had been monitoring voting throughout the day for the opposition Reformist Social Christian Party.