31.   Bruised in provincial elections, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has moved to reassert his authority over his government with the appointment of three key aides to his Cabinet.

32.   Buthelezi on Sunday repeated calls for new provincial elections he hopes would give Inkatha a two-thirds majority.

33.   Ethnic Albanians line up to vote in provincial elections.

34.   Either this fall or next spring, Bouchard is expected to call a provincial election.

35.   He could try to regain momentum by calling a provincial election early, or he could wait for separatist sentiment to rebuild gradually.

36.   He has said he will not call provincial elections or another referendum this year.

37.   In an apparent concession to the political opposition, the government of Gujarat said Wednesday that it had decided against holding immediate provincial elections.

38.   In provincial elections, two children of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos held commanding leads early in the vote tally.

39.   In the provincial election, Bouchard faces a close race against Jean Charest, a popular anti-separatist politician.

40.   Jacques Chagnon, a critic for the opposition Liberals, dismissed the proposals as too sweeping when Quebec is facing a provincial election by next fall.