51.   Tuesday night, they said the inauguration would go on as planned and that Mwanawasa would assume power.

52.   Two years into his posting, Mao Zedong and his communist comrades assumed power in China, and the nationalists fled to Taiwan.

53.   WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will assume the powers of the presidency temporarily on Saturday while President Bush is sedated for a colon exam at Camp David.

54.   Vice-President Rosalia Arteaga, meanwhile, insists she has the right to assume power, and was expected to make further declarations today.

55.   Worse, an angry and frustrated electorate opens the door for demagogues and nut cases to assume power.

56.   Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan dispatched two ministers to Baghdad shortly after assuming power in June and hailed the visit as a victory.

57.   Pyongyang officials have said he will assume full power after one year of mourning.

58.   Poland completes its sweeping administrative reforms Sunday when voters choose new regional and local bodies that will assume powers held by the central government during the communist era.

59.   A coalition of Nepali Congress, the National Democratic Party and Nepal Goodwill Party assumed power last week.

60.   A Kashmiri party assumed power in the insurgency-wracked Indian state Wednesday, as a protest strike called by separatists partially shut down the state capital.