31.   They claimed he was leading the country toward Islamic rule.

32.   Washington would do best by working to maintain as much continuity and cooperation as possible with this NATO ally now experimenting with democratic Islamic rule.

33.   Women wear the head scarves and overcoats required of all women by the Islamic rules for dress.

34.   With or without the U.S. embargo, the regime is likely to implode eventually unless there is a dramatic change in its domestic Islamic rule and its anti-Western worldview.

35.   Zeroual defeated three candidates, including two moderate advocates of Islamic rule.

36.   Opposition groups have not been allowed to operate since the revolution, and all candidates in the March election professed their allegiance to Islamic rule.

37.   Ousted government military chief Ahmed Shah Massood has said the Taliban lost more by winning Kabul because their strict version of Islamic rule has cost them popular support.

38.   Police blamed Muslim insurgents for the attack, the deadliest in their four-year campaign to overthrow the largely secular government and install strict Islamic rule.

39.   Others are simply afraid to vote, fearing retribution by extremist groups trying to topple the government and install strict Islamic rule.

40.   Qassem is wanted by Egypt on charges of attempting to overthrow the secular government and replace it with strict Islamic rule.