21.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has decided to hold presidential and legislative elections within six months, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, a senior Arafat adviser, said Thursday.

22.   Other members form PACS in preparation for leadership elections within Congress.

23.   Should Yeltsin die in office, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin would become acting president and must call new elections within three months.

24.   The businessman who helped lead the protesters, Pedro Carmona, was sworn as head of an interim government that promises elections within a year.

25.   They denied having political ambitions, saying they wanted to install a transitional government to make peace and call elections within six months.

26.   Under the British electoral system, there are no fixed election dates, and the prime minister must only call an election within five years of having taken office.

27.   Villagers may have a chance at a run-off election within three months, although it remains unclear who the candidates will be.

28.   Zoran Zivkovic, vice president of the Democratic Party, one of the main opposition groups, predicted elections within a year.

29.   Opposition spokesmen welcomed the move, but said the strike would go on until Mrs. Zia agrees to quit and arrange for new elections within three months.

30.   Politicians of all three parties had expected Arthur to call elections within the next few days at the latest.