11.   With a crucial parliamentary election due in a week, it would not do for Yeltsin to meekly accept Western dressings-down over a hugely popular war.

12.   With new elections due this year, opposition groups are campaigning for constitutional changes that would give them a realistic chance of winning.

13.   A leading group of Asians in Kenya added its voice Saturday to the growing demand for constitutional reforms to ensure free and fair elections due later this year.

14.   A government minister protested the nomination by his own ruling party of a political outsider to be its candidate in elections due later this year.

15.   A week after opposition parties in Guinea said they would boycott legislative elections due next month, the government postponed the ballot indefinitely.

16.   Berisha reiterated his previous stand that if his Democratic Party loses new elections due no later than June, he would quit then.

17.   Both parties are already seeking advantage for new legislative elections due next year.

18.   But with an election due next year, Horn is now telling citizens at every opportunity that his policies are paying off.

19.   Critics charge the government wants Nano, who has considerable support, to remain in jail until after elections due early next year.

20.   Earlier this year, Chiluba flirted with running for an unconstitutional third term in elections due later this year but backed down in the face of widespread opposition.