101.   Pena said he decided to run for the post after a party convention failed twice to choose a candidate.

102.   A party convention to choose a new leader was expected to take months to organize.

103.   A state security court launched an investigation of a Kurdish party convention Sunday after some delegates demonstrated in support of a Kurdish guerrilla group fighting for autonomy.

104.   Activists will choose one at a party convention in January.

105.   Akcan had pulled down a Turkish flag during a party convention last year and replaced it with the flag of the illegal guerrilla Kurdish group, PKK.

106.   Already ahead in the polls, German opposition candidate Gerhard Schroeder is starring in a party convention designed to bolster his image as a fresh political force.

107.   An emergency party convention in mid-October will decide whether Simitis will remain head of the party.

108.   Arafat was in Athens to address a governing Socialist party convention, the second time he has done so in the past two and-a-half years.

109.   As an Orthodox Jew, Lieberman ordinarily does not attended Friday night party conventions because he is observing the Sabbath.

110.   At the June party convention, he will be pitted against Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, who announced his candidacy last week.