31.   Labor unions and leftist politicians counter that employers are only looking for excuses to increase their profits.

32.   Last month, a Communist rebel group had killed five leftist politicians in nearby Kushtia district.

33.   Leftist politician Cuauhtemoc Cardenas won the coveted Mexico City mayoral seat.

34.   Leftist politicians expressed mixed feelings.

35.   Leftist politicians were responsible for leading the country into the deep crisis that prompted the coup, he has argued.

36.   Leftist Egyptian politician Chehata Haroun, who had refused to leave his homeland even as his Jewish community dwindled from thousands to hundreds, has died.

37.   Leftist politicians argue the president has no legal grounds for dissolving the parliament.

38.   Leftist politicians say the Allende government was responsible for errors, but that the Pinochet regime was guilty of horrors.

39.   Leftist politicians, human rights groups and families of victims of the Pinochet regime have demanded that Pinochet stand trial.

40.   Legislators voted to remove the immunity of leftist politician Gabriel Bivolaru, who is accused of defrauding a Romanian bank.