41.   Authorities blame the glut of stray dogs on late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who demolished tens of thousands of houses, forcing residents to move into cramped apartments.

42.   Bertossa helped broker a deal to return hundreds of millions of dollars to Nigeria, whose oil revenues were plundered by the late dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

43.   Both men were imprisoned during the rule of the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha.

44.   Both were political prisoners under the late military dictator Gen. Sani Abacha whose sudden death last June set off the transition to civilian rule.

45.   Both Nexhmije Hoxha, the wife of the late Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, and former president Ramiz Alia are in jail.

46.   Both countries helped Kabila last year during his rebel drive to oust the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

47.   But government lawyers say Westinghouse later won the contract by bribing the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos through a middleman.

48.   Campos, a business associate of the late dictator, surrendered many Marcos properties under his care in a settlement with the government.

49.   Catherine Nzuzi, a former governorunder late Congo dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, will represent Mobutu loyalists.

50.   Closest rival is Corneliu Vadim Tudor, an extreme nationalist known for his poems of praise for the late communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.