1.   An Ashcroft aide said the senator repudiated the citizens council.

2.   He made a bold play to take over the local citizens advisory council, but abandoned the project in the face of strong community opposition.

3.   That core group, Baum said, included people who belonged to the old citizens councils.

4.   The CCC is descended from the Southern white citizens councils that bitterly resisted black civil rights.

5.   The newly appointed citizens council in charge of the federal Electoral Institute, which oversees the elections, also fears a lack of vigilance at rural precincts.

6.   Ruling party candidate Gonzalez Curi offered to create an impartial citizen council to review the charges, but vowed to defend his victory.