41.   Nor was it a part of what many hailed as a historic step taken by other former colonial powers - the recognition of slavery as a crime against humanity.

42.   Nigeria, like much of Africa, was put together haphazardly as a nation by colonial powers.

43.   Palestinians saw the British as a colonial power that was permitting tens of thousands of Jews to emigrate to Palestine.

44.   Our countries were turned into the patrimony of colonial powers.

45.   One thinks of itself as conducting a brave if ruthless resistance against a brutal colonial power.

46.   President Jacques Chirac will represent France, the former colonial power.

47.   Parliamentary systems inherited from colonial powers have proved troublesome in many countries.

48.   Portugal was the former colonial power in East Timor, and Americans, New Zealanders and other non-Asians are apparently viewed as prejudiced against Indonesia.

49.   President Clinton, on a subsequent visit to Africa, apologized to Rwanda for the lack of international response, as has Belgium, the former colonial power.

50.   Succeeding where the French had failed would also prove U.S. superiority over the European colonial powers.