21.   He said he had hoped that the new military ruler would not try to cling to power, the way others have typically done in Africa.

22.   If Laurent Kabila, the new ruler, can get his huge rich country to function properly, the economy of the whole of central Africa would be galvanized.

23.   If they have to exist in business, they have to be flexible in editorials, to make themselves acceptable to the new rulers.

24.   In the years after the end of the war, thousands of Lithuanians fought a doomed war of resistance against their new Soviet rulers.

25.   None of them recognize the new rulers.

26.   Overall, though, many Nigerians seemed ready Tuesday to give their new ruler the benefit of the doubt, for the moment.

27.   So they may turn out to be the most open and forward leaning of the new rulers in the region.

28.   That would not only represent a violation of the cease-fire arrangements, it would also damage relations between NATO and the new democratic rulers of Yugoslavia.

29.   The concern, it seems, is not to appear too publicly sympathetic to the departing Britons, or too visibly enchanted with the new rulers.

30.   The new rulers claim that they seek to restore nothing more than the colonial status quo ante.