31.   Claes rejected Russian demands for guarantees that no foreign troops or nuclear weapons will be stationed in former Communist bloc nations if they join the Western alliance.

32.   Health system ailing across former communist bloc.

33.   Hungary is set to privatize its electricity industry, the first country in the former communist bloc to do so, the state news agency MTI reported Saturday.

34.   Leaving for the former communist bloc, however, is not so frowned upon.

35.   Most of the secessionist movements were backed by Communist bloc countries.

36.   Now that front line would be extended into a region that was part of that Cold War communist bloc.

37.   Other speakers noted Poland always felt stronger cultural and ideological links to Western Europe instead of the communist Soviet bloc.

38.   Payments are being made to Nazi victims living in the former Communist bloc, who for more than half a century were excluded from compensation.

39.   Russia has repeatedly expressed displeasure over the prospect of members of the former Communist bloc joining NATO,

40.   Seeking unity and a rebirth of Christianity in eastern Europe, Pope John Paul II has asked regional leaders to help deliver his message across the former communist bloc.