31.   Many Democrats, especially those facing tough elections, want President Clinton to resign, but are afraid there is a political risk in saying so.

32.   Netanyahu denied that his government will face new elections, but drew campaign-like distinctions between his administration and that of the opposition Labor Party.

33.   New Zealand faces elections for the first time under a proportional representation voting system.

34.   Now it faces elections this year for legislative districts redrawn to deliver GOP majorities in the House and Senate.

35.   Politicians, though, are more worried than ministry bureaucrats, partly because members of the upper house of Parliament face election this summer.

36.   Privately administration officials expressed the fear that the government of Shimon Peres, which faces elections this spring, may prove to be ultimate victim of the bombings.

37.   Several GOP candidates facing tough elections in key races tried to distance themselves from the ad campaign.

38.   Simitis faces national elections this spring.

39.   Still, the decision to go ahead with the rebate can only help her fellow Democrats in the legislature, who also happen to be facing elections this November.

40.   That is sound policy, and smart politics for Peres, who faces an election later this spring.