61.   The Duma can hold three confirmation votes.

62.   The Duma is scheduled to hold a confirmation vote on Wednesday.

63.   The Duma is scheduled to hold the first of three possible confirmation votes on his candidacy Wednesday.

64.   The Duma postponed a confirmation vote on the acting prime minister Friday, avoiding a confrontation with President Boris Yeltsin as pressure mounted on hard-line lawmakers to back down.

65.   The Duma will hold a confirmation vote on premier-designate Sergei Stepashin on Wednesday.

66.   The first confirmation vote is scheduled for Wednesday.

67.   The legislature votes Tuesday on a motion to require reappointed Premier Lien Chan to undergo a confirmation vote.

68.   The opposition claims Lee kept Lien on as premier to dodge a tricky confirmation vote, and thus broke a promise to appoint someone new.

69.   The quarrels could lead to a stormy confirmation vote on the Dini government and could eventually bring its downfall.

70.   The three men ended their hunger strike following the confirmation vote Tuesday evening.