51.   The pack of potential candidates is busy scrambling for political alliances and benefactors among the business-media tycoons.

52.   The privacy effort has involved unusual political alliances.

53.   The opposition forces now battling in the north would await the formation of a broader-based political alliance before moving on Kabul, he said.

54.   The result is a bizarre political alliance between conservatives in Congress and labor and environmental groups opposed to the China deal.

55.   The political alliance between Yeltsin and Lebed was expedient from the start, and destined for trouble.

56.   The third reality is that broader political alliances still count for a lot.

57.   The Vatican, however, hands out papal knighthoods largely to seal political alliances.

58.   To accomplish anything, Toledo will have to forge political alliances.

59.   Until their joint appearance on Saturday, political analysts said, Ranariddh had engaged the Khmer Rouge in the power struggle, seeking the political alliance of defecting leaders.

60.   A FUNCINPEC-led political alliance with several fringe and opposition groups, announced last week, has in its draft charter a call for strong outside participation.