51.   Parliament passed a gradual cut in German retirement benefits Friday, drawing protests from the leftist opposition that the government was attacking a pillar of the welfare state.

52.   Other candidates include deputy parliament speaker and former Education Minister Peeter Kreitzberg, of the leftist opposition Center Party.

53.   Salinas never met publicly with leaders of that main leftist opposition during his administration.

54.   Sczypinski, a deputy of the leftist opposition Labor Union party, told the newspaper the government had secretly fueled money into the shipyard without any restructuring plan.

55.   The general idea has a broad support among politicians, but the government and the leftist opposition disagree over the number of provinces.

56.   The government has pledged its full military cooperation with the United States, though leftist opposition parties disagree.

57.   The leftist opposition Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, organized the protests peasants.

58.   The leftist opposition in the parliament demanded legal action against France and Greenpeace activists staged a spectacular protest.

59.   The leftist opposition in Veracruz denounced an election eve murder and accused the PRI of buying votes and pressuring voters.

60.   The leftist opposition to Berlusconi, a media tycoon, had opposed the return of Berlusconi government ministers.