1.   Hernandez had announced last year that he would not seek re-election, and four candidates are vying to succeed him.

2.   Issa, Morrow and Dornan are vying to succeed nine-term Republican Rep. Ron Packard.

3.   On the Democratic side, three lawyers with longstanding involvement in community organizations are vying to succeed Councilman Sal Albanese, the Democratic incumbent who is running for mayor.

4.   That has Balkan watchers guessing who might vie to succeed him.

5.   The arrest last May of the rebel leader Foday Sankoh has reportedly weakened the insurgency, with factional leaders vying to succeed him.

6.   The men vying to succeed him have both chaired the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, after all.

7.   They are vying to succeed Mayor Paul Schell.

8.   Also present were Premier Edouard Balladur and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, conservatives vying to succeed Mitterrand in a two-round election that begins Sunday.

9.   Bloomberg is one of two Repubicans and four Democrats vying to succeed Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is prevented by term limits from running again in November.

10.   Pal Schmitt of Hungary and Anita DeFrantz of the United States are the other candidates vying to succeed Samaranch.