1.   Arnoldo Aleman, a conservative former mayor of Managua, leads Sandinista commander Daniel Ortega by about five percentage points in recent polls.

2.   Arnoldo Aleman, the conservative former mayor of Managua, defeated former Sandinista commander Daniel Ortega in presidential elections, according to early returns.

3.   At the center of this raging land dispute is the conservative mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, who has paved the way for friend and supporter Moskowitz.

4.   Barring a major upset, the main question is who will come in second behind the front-runner, the conservative mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac.

5.   For all his heightened powers in Trenton, DiFrancesco faces a challenge in the Republican primary from Bret Schundler, the conservative mayor of Jersey City.

6.   In an interview Wednesday night, DiFrancesco accused Schundler, the conservative mayor of Jersey City, N.J., of orchestrating a smear campaign against him.

7.   Ortega and Arnulfo Aleman, the conservative popular former mayor of Managua, are considered the two top candidates, with Aleman in the lead in recent polls.

8.   An explosion damaged the house of a conservative mayor in southern France, but no one was injured, police said Friday.

9.   But the conservative mayor balked, sensing the socialist Weygand was trying to embarrass him.

10.   Chirac, the conservative former mayor of Paris, was elected in May to succeed Socialist Francois Mitterrand.