51.   But they reserved their most serious pleas for the World Hindu Council, which is part of the same family of Hindu nationalist groups as their governing party.

52.   But uneasiness in both governing parties is still evident.

53.   But voters and opposition leaders say the only real change is in the tactics of the governing party, known as the PRI.

54.   But with the governing party loathed in many quarters and hardly a model of good governance, the rebels retain considerable potential as a political force.

55.   Cardenas spurned a request to step down to help defeat the governing party.

56.   Certainly, there was no evidence of any war euphoria carrying the governing parties to victory.

57.   Could it be, at least in part, because a party very publicly unable to gainsay its right-wing grandstanders does not look like a governing party?

58.   Doubt had run deep that the governing party could win without the fraud that has marred past elections.

59.   During the campaign, Fox repeatedly invited Cardenas to join forces with him to defeat the governing party, but his flirtations went unrequited.

60.   During that confrontation, Guadalajara was controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, the governing party in Mexico for nearly seven decades.