31.   A tough-talking former Communist state farm director, Lukashenko has championed renewed ties to Moscow.

32.   After abruptly canceling campaign trips this week, Yeltsin backed out of a Kremlin gathering with state farm workers on Friday.

33.   Agriculture has suffered serious setbacks caused by lack of funds during privatization of large state farms.

34.   Among his other new powers, Lukashenko, a former Soviet state farm director, now can appoint many lawmakers and judges.

35.   And most huge Soviet-style state farms have been reorganized into cooperatives that reward more productive workers with extra pay.

36.   An agrarian engineer by profession, Nagy had been head of a state farm in western Hungary.

37.   But it would also subject Russia to tough WTO regulations, requiring cuts in state farm subsidies, removal of import tariffs and other anti-protectionist reforms.

38.   But Lukashenko, a former state farm director, said he will insist on doing things his way if parliament disagrees.

39.   Few state farms have succeeded in adjusting to the loss of heavy state funding and are mired in poverty.

40.   Half the fields at the state farm lie unplowed because of high fuel prices, and employees rarely are paid on time.