21.   Most of the runoffs will be between candidates of the two largest parties, the Socialists and the Democrats, but smaller parties are also competing.

22.   Observers say the party will likely compete with the former ruling party, the National Liberation Front, weakened by divisions between the old guard and so-called renovators.

23.   Robust communist parties competed for votes in Italy and France.

24.   That party may compete with the PLO in upcoming Palestinian elections.

25.   The two parties have competed through leaflets, rallies, cars blaring slogans through megaphones and competing cassettes of campaign rhetoric set to traditional Yemeni music.

26.   Three smaller parties also competed.

27.   Two members recently defected, and a new party is competing for Russian immigrant votes.

28.   Unable to present a united front, several reformers could challenge Yeltsin in June, just as their parties competed against each other in the parliamentary elections.