21.   If the Duma votes no three times, the president can disband the legislature and call new elections.

22.   It has said it will disband the legislature and hold new elections under the old, pre-Patten rules.

23.   Many Communists are upset with Yeltsin, who threatened to disband the legislature last month until lawmakers reluctantly approved his candidate for prime minister, Sergei Kiriyenko.

24.   Many Communists are still upset with Yeltsin, who threatened to disband the legislature last month until lawmakers reluctantly approved his candidate for prime minister, Sergei Kiriyenko.

25.   Once impeachment proceedings are under way, the Constitution bars Yeltsin from disbanding the legislature.

26.   Rifkind admitted as much during his visit when he said Britain could not stop Beijing from carrying out its plans to disband the legislature.

27.   Saying the reforms were enacted without its approval, China plans to disband the legislature and hold fresh elections next year.

28.   The ADPL previously had opposed disbanding the legislature, on which it has four seats.

29.   The constitution gives Yeltsin the upper hand in disputes with parliament, allowing him to disband the legislature if it rejects his nominee for premier three times.

30.   The Democrats claim that in striking this deal, Britain caved in and abandoned efforts to dissuade China from disbanding the legislature.