1.   There were eight other minor candidates.

2.   As usual, there were many minor candidates on state ballots.

3.   As minor candidates have seen their poll numbers slip, they have dropped from the race hoping to help one of the front-runners.

4.   By permitting the networks to exclude minor candidates, the commission cleared away a potential obstacle to efforts to secure uniform free time for the major party presidential candidates.

5.   By permitting the networks to exclude minor candidates, the FCC cleared away a potential obstacle to efforts to secure uniform free time for the major party presidential candidates.

6.   Flores, a conservative member of Congress who bravely spoke out against Fujimori when others feared him, broke from the pack of minor candidates in February.

7.   Five percent are undecided and an equal number support minor party candidates, the poll shows.

8.   Four other minor candidates were not expected to do well.

9.   Fox was widely judged in Mexico City to be the winner of that encounter, which included Labastida, Cardenas and three other minor candidates.

10.   It was the second television debate to include minor party candidates Don Ersnberger, of the Libertarians, and Diane Blough, of the Patriot Party.