31.   Citing his old age and communist past, Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas told the nation Monday night that he will not seek re-election this year.

32.   Despite courting the West, suspicions linger that he has not relinquished his Communist past.

33.   Few Mongolians appear to feel sentimentality about their communist past or the freedom they now enjoy under democracy.

34.   Few Mongolians appear nostalgic about their communist past or sentimental about the freedom they now enjoy under democracy.

35.   Four years ago, Romanians turned to Constantinescu, rejecting Iliescu in what was widely seen at the time as severing the links to the communist past.

36.   He also has shown little interest in privatizing the state-run economy, instead relying on the tenets of his Communist past.

37.   He decided not to run because of his age, communist past and unwillingness to clash with a parliament that considers his policies too pro-Russian.

38.   He raises the specter of American soldiers dying to protect a Romania still tethered to a degree to its communist past.

39.   He said he would veto all acts aimed at reviving the communist past.

40.   He said he was motivated mainly by concern that his communist past would be the focus of the campaign and create a negative image for the former Soviet republic.