21.   The current presidential succession picture looks as if it were sketched by a Hollywood casting director with an eye for the ridiculous.

22.   Vice President Cheney was in a secure location to preserve the chain of presidential succession in the face of the second nationwide terrorism alert in three weeks.

23.   Vice President Dick Cheney continued to work at a secure location away from the president to guarantee presidential succession in the event of an attack on the White House.

24.   White House officials say Cheney is being kept in a safe place to protect the line of presidential succession during a time of national alert.

25.   With each new effort to quash popular calls for greater accountability, Suharto diminishes the chances for a peaceful presidential succession as well as hoped-for liberalization.

26.   With the secretary of state fourth in line of presidential succession, Albright would become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in the federal government.

27.   With Bush often dispatching Vice President Dick Cheney to a secure and separate location for security reasons, Sherman has also proposed a change in presidential succession rules.

28.   A dealer with a local securities firm said that only certainty about presidential succession would calm the market.

29.   Amien was among the first political observers to make strong calls for presidential succession to facilitate democratization.

30.   Amien believes reform should await the presidential succession in March.