1.   ...following the revelation of his affair with a former secretary.

2.   Also absent from the congress were Deng Xiaoping and former party secretary Zhao Ziyang, who had reportedly asked for leave.

3.   Another faction was led by the conservative former NSF secretary Velicu Redina, who declared that he would set up a new social democratic NSF.

4.   Former first secretary Mieczyslaw Rakowski said that he had paid the money back.

5.   The report also claimed that the plenum reviewed the case of the former party general secretary, Zhao Ziyang.

6.   Nguyen Van Linh, the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, visited China during the first half of May.

7.   Attention was concentrated on the situation developing around former CPSU general secretary and ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

8.   A former secretary general of the United Nations, a bishop and an artist were among those receiving honorary degrees from Oxford University today.

9.   The former secretary at Swindon Town football club has been given a suspended jail sentence for conspiring to cheat the Inland Revenue.

10.   An interview with former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin looked like two little Pez heads suspended in a split screen.