111.   Prime Minister Edouard Balladur has pulled back virtually neck and neck with Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the French presidential race, according to two polls published Tuesday.

112.   Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin has also joined the wages battle.

113.   Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin has admitted to owning two cars, but rents his homes and has no property, shares or bonds.

114.   Socialist presidential candidate Lionel Jospin pledged Friday that France would not resume nuclear tests in the South Pacific if he were elected in forthcoming ballots.

115.   Stoyanov on Tuesday designated Socialist candidate Nikolai Dobrev as the new prime minister and he is to present his government to the president on Monday.

116.   Tapie had earlier said his Radical party would put up a candidate if Jospin became the socialist candidate.

117.   The assassination came eight days after that of Fernando Mugica, a Socialist candidate for a Basque province in the upcoming elections, and also a friend of Gonzalez.

118.   The bickering in the French right comes amid a surge in the fortunes of the expected socialist candidate for the elections -- outgoing European Commission President Jacques Delors.

119.   The action, in which the Socialist candidate is challenging Megret on two counts of irregularities, cannot be ruled on until after the second round.

120.   The assassination comes eight days after that of Fernando Mugica, a Socialist candidate for a Basque province in the upcoming elections, and also a friend of Gonzalez.