31.   A former dissident and the first post-communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia will take over as United Nations human rights investigator for the former Yugoslavia, officials said Friday.

32.   A group of former Soviet dissidents said Wednesday that Israel has forgotten them.

33.   And current President Zhelyu Zhelev, a former anti-Communist dissident, has urged the Socialists and opposition to compromise on the election date and other issues first.

34.   Attendees included former dissidents, city officials, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky.

35.   Bonner, a former Soviet dissident and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, said the United Nations and other international organizations should demand an immediate cease-fire.

36.   But the outgoing president, a former anti-Communist dissident, will have to rely on moral force rather than political muscle to prevent the measure from becoming law.

37.   But the president, a former anti-Communist dissident, will have to rely on moral force rather than political muscle to prevent the measures from becoming law.

38.   Czech senator Vaclav Benda, a mathematician and philosopher and former anti-communist dissident, died in a hospital early Wednesday, the news agency CTK reported.

39.   Elchibey, a distinguished historian and former dissident in Soviet times, died a year ago in Turkey.

40.   Even Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident who heads a Russian immigrants party, has an American pollster.