1.   The immediate focus of accusations was the opposition Likud party and its chairman, Binyamin Netanyahu.

2.   Others were members of the opposition Likud party or other right-wing parties.

3.   Pre-election polls predicted a tight race between Franco, of the opposition Liberal party, and Argana.

4.   Pedro Jose Ardaiz, a senator from the opposition Socialist party, said the issue of what is and what is not appropriate on TV goes beyond party lines.

5.   Blair agreed to look at proposals by the opposition Conservative party to toughen existing powers to restrict known troublemakers from travelling abroad.

6.   His newspaper is closely linked to the opposition Social Democratic party.

7.   Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday urged the hawkish opposition Likud party to join his shaky coalition and held late-night talks with Likud leader Ariel Sharon.

8.   Members of his Cabinet urged him Saturday to form a national unity government with the hawkish opposition Likud party.

9.   Rabin is scheduled to speak Thursday evening, followed by Gore on Friday morning and Netanyahu, head of the right-wing opposition Likud party, later Friday.

10.   The police are also investigating the campaign funding of the opposition Likud party and three other parties, but those sums are much smaller.