1.   Ahead of the plenum there had been unprecedented calls from party branches for Gorbachev to step down.

2.   Adams made his remarks Thursday night at the opening of a new party branch in Newry on the Irish border.

3.   In an uncharacteristically contrite written statement, Kohl admitted that he had used secret accounts to provide financial support for local party branches.

4.   Nor are there records of a donation from Kawamoto in the party branch political funds report for the year.

5.   Optimistic students of the elections say that in practice, new relations between party branches and elected officials are gradually evolving.

6.   The party branch in the state of Hesse has appeared most guilty.

7.   Activists have defied the crackdown, announcing the formation of new party branches and making plans for gatherings despite police warnings.

8.   But in the past two weeks, dissidents in five other provinces sought again to register party branches.

9.   Christian Democrats in Hesse state started faxing the petition to party branches on Wednesday.

10.   Defying those warnings, six dissidents including Xu and Lu issued a statement late Monday declaring that they had set up a party branch.