51.   But the national legislature adjourned in uproar after a member of the main opposition Congress party accused Vajpayee of advocating Hindu nationalism.

52.   Cheng was expelled from the party and dismissed as vice chairman of the national legislature in April.

53.   China continues to snub the party, blocking efforts by its members to become deputies to the national legislature and refusing to let them visit the mainland.

54.   China signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights last year, but the communist-controlled national legislature has yet to ratify it.

55.   Chinese anxieties about foreign broadcasting got a rare public airing at the annual session of the national legislature in Beijing in early March.

56.   Closing out a workmanlike annual session of the national legislature, lawmakers approved the amendments giving greater backing to the vibrant but officially neglected private sector.

57.   Closing out a workmanlike, if unambitious annual session of the national legislature, lawmakers approved the amendments giving greater backing to the vibrant but officially neglected private sector.

58.   China moved the event from the seat of the national legislature to an obscure government compound and sent only low-level officials to attend.

59.   Chinese leaders meeting this month at the annual session of the national legislature in Beijing have referred to crushing the Falun Gong as a key government goal.

60.   Concerns about moving ahead with legal change will suffuse the annual session of the national legislature, which opens Thursday.