21.   Dehaene announced the resignation of Willy De Ridder in an address to parliament where he faced opposition calls for his center-left government to step down.

22.   Despite opposition calls for his resignation to take responsibility, Agriculture Minister Tsutomu Takebe said he would stay on.

23.   Estrada has refused opposition calls to resign as his impeachment trial, which began last month, continues.

24.   Fischer has not commented on the announcement of the investigation, although he has firmly rejected opposition calls for his resignation.

25.   Fischer said he still feels bitterness over the renewed debate about his past, which was marked by repeated opposition calls for his resignation.

26.   He again denied that his government had anything to do with the so-called GAL death squads, although he failed to quell opposition calls for his resignation.

27.   He complained that Yeltsin was not interested in a real dialogue with parliament and had not listened to opposition calls for an alternative candidate for prime minister.

28.   He complained that Yeltsin had not listened to opposition calls for an alternate candidate.

29.   He has been traveling extensively through the country during the official two-week campaign season, encouraging people to ignore the opposition calls to boycott.

30.   In the capital, Minsk, the opposition call for a boycott appeared to have succeeded, with only a thin trickle of voters all day Sunday.