11.   A party congress scheduled for June is expected to take a hard look at the new Vietnam that is emerging.

12.   A similar round of arrests took place a year ago before similar plans for a party congress.

13.   Aguilar Zinser made only a brief appearance at the party congress.

14.   But in a later speech outside the headquarters of his United National Independence Party, he said he was calling a party congress to elect a new leader.

15.   But it is hard to see what central power configuration will emerge from the party congress due in the autumn.

16.   But it was not until the party congress held in October that Fidel Castro formally designated Raul as his successor as Communist Party leader.

17.   For the moment, the league has deferred personnel and policy debate to a party congress scheduled for February.

18.   Government TV showed ranks of patriotic delegates gathering for a party congress under the images of Marx and Lenin.

19.   He has also agreed to submit a wealth tax proposal to a Social Democratic party congress in December.

20.   He predicts an interest rate cut will soon follow the party congress, among other measures to re-ignite activity.