61.   Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who faces parliamentary elections next year, has been criticized by a rebel Congress party faction, of being soft towards Hindu nationalists.

62.   Rawlings faces another election in November.

63.   Barak, weakened by the Palestinian unrest, faces early elections in coming months, and a peace deal is seen as his best hope to hold onto power.

64.   Blair also had talks with President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who is facing elections in May, before flying to Dakar, in Senegal.

65.   Blair also had talks with President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who is facing elections in May, before flying to Dakar, Senegal.

66.   Brazil faces presidential elections later this year, and leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva currently leads the polls.

67.   But France and Germany are dragging their heels as their governments face elections this year and are wary of upsetting powerful labor unions.

68.   But Abkhazians claim the blockade was imposed at the request of Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze, who faces presidential elections in the autumn.

69.   But Prime Minister Tansu Ciller ruled them out, saying Turkey had to complete its austerity program before facing new elections.

70.   But the ban faces fierce opposition from Communists and other hard-line lawmakers, who face elections this December.