41.   Four opinion polls in the past two weeks show him trailing the likely Socialist candidate, Jacques Delors.

42.   Guichard had said earlier he would wait two days before deciding whether to pull out and throw his votes to the Socialist candidate to block the far right.

43.   Hamel had said he would withdraw to block the National Front in the second round if the Socialist candidate proved stronger.

44.   He has been convicted of roughing up and insulting a woman Socialist candidate and banned from political office for three years.

45.   He lost to Socialist candidate Francois Mitterrand.

46.   He suggested that neither Stoyanov, deputy chairman of the UDF, nor Socialist candidate Georgi Pirinski, the current foreign minister, have much to offer Bulgaria.

47.   He won a landslide victory over a Socialist candidate.

48.   He will compete at a party convention early next month against two other Socialist candidates -- former Culture Minister Jack Lang and former Education Minister Lionel Jospin.

49.   His crushing victory over Socialist candidate Ivan Marazov has been as a referendum on Socilist rule.

50.   If the opposition gains in strength and organization, it might well defeat a Socialist candidate, leaving Milosevic without a base of power.