21.   In Burundi, the Tutsi, who were the traditional ruling class, never relinquished power after independence.

22.   In September, citizens impatient with the misrule of Slobodan Milosevic elected a new president of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, and eventually forced Milosevic to relinquish power.

23.   It relinquished enough power for the umpires union to grow strong and ornery, a lethal combination.

24.   It is a far cry from what happens in Chile, where military officers are protected by an amnesty Pinochet imposed as a condition for relinquishing power.

25.   Judge Guzman is not seeking to have Pinochet punished by exploiting a legal loophole in the amnesty provisions the dictator wrested from Chile before relinquishing power.

26.   Lenin was about to seize power and create the totalitarian system that Yeltsin later toppled before relinquishing power.

27.   Manley has been in the forefront of behind-the-scenes efforts to find a formula that would lead Haitian military leaders led by Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras to relinquish power voluntarily.

28.   Musoni said he celebrated when Ian Smith, the last white head of state, finally relinquished power.

29.   Officials said the leave would be permanent, and that Carrillo would relinquish powers when the Morelos Congress formally accepted his request, perhaps as early as Wednesday.

30.   Others, already suspecting the military has little intention of relinquishing power, have begun to warn of the possibility of spreading unrest.