41.   People worried about the effects of sustained violence on the peace effort, which nevertheless appeared to be moving ahead with the start of work by the new assembly.

42.   Protestant leaders, like Trimble, want it to be weaker, controlled by a new regional legislative assembly that would have a Protestant majority.

43.   Protestants want weaker bodies that would be controlled by the Protestant majority that would elected to the new assembly.

44.   Smith avoided saying whether GM would put any of the new assembly plants in Mexico.

45.   She said that in her own mind, she was not so much voting to elect a new assembly as to assert her ethnic identity.

46.   Sources within the republican movement, however, said Sinn Fein had gotten IRA approval to take seats and press its case in the new assembly.

47.   The British quickly ruled out the proposed compromise, and instead backed the unionist idea for a new assembly.

48.   The company recently announced plans, with partners, for two new South American assembly plants and an engine factory.

49.   The Free Democratic Party faces a key electoral test in March when voters in three states go to the polls to elect a new state assembly.

50.   The new Welsh assembly will have important administrative powers but no authority to make laws.