31.   At least nine anti-government activists were being held as Cuba prepares to try a government opponent, a human rights leader said Thursday.

32.   At the time, President Fidel Castro charged that government opponents were trying to undermine the event.

33.   Before that, Carter had his first meeting with Cuban government opponents.

34.   Authorities closed down the paper briefly in February after it published an article accusing state security personnel of cracking down on government opponents.

35.   Aziz, a former finance minister, is among the growing list of government opponents predicting hyperinflation as a result of the budget unveiled in June.

36.   Both countries have traded threats over a disputed border region and accused the other of harboring government opponents.

37.   But government opponents fear other commanders possibly linked to the kidnappings will not be targeted.

38.   But he said that the main government opponent, the nominal Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was using the lull to prepare for a fresh attack.

39.   But government opponents cried foul, accusing the government of stuffing ballots, drawing up voting lists with names of people long dead and busing in supporters.

40.   But he did acknowledge that Cuba rounded up government opponents hours before the beach landing.