21.   Solidarity leaders had objected to Merkel because he sat on the board of a private company linked to the reformed communists.

22.   Still struggling for a national audience, the reformed East German communists are often seen as merely a handful of offbeat personalities or a political relic.

23.   The assembly also appointed Zdravko Tomac of the Social Liberals, or reformed communists, as speaker of the Zagreb assembly.

24.   The candidacy is supported by the leftist coalition of peasants and reformed communists, enjoying a two thirds majority in the powerful lower chamber.

25.   The leftist Greens and the reformed East German communists, the Party of Democratic Socialism, also voted against the bill.

26.   The reformed communists, the Party of Democratic Socialists, were the only bloc unified in opposing the euro.

27.   The presidential election in Russia was basically between a reformed communist and a market-oriented candidate.

28.   While Schroeder has staunchly backed the U.S. war on terrorism, the reformed communists have opposed the attacks on Afghanistan.

29.   Gregor Gysi of the East German-based reformed communists said the move would soon visibly translate into worse teeth.

30.   But it is more orthodox than other reformed communists who have made comebacks in eastern Europe.