31.   Lukashenko has been criticized in the West for amassing almost unlimited powers and ruling his struggling, former Soviet republic with Soviet-style intolerance of dissent.

32.   Lukashenko, a former state farm director and an open admirer of the Soviet Union, has amassed nearly unlimited powers in Belarus.

33.   Lukashenko, who gained nearly unlimited powers in a national referendum, has been criticized in the West for curbing press freedoms and cracking down on political opponents.

34.   Lukashenko, an authoritarian president who has almost unlimited power in Belarus, has persecuted independent media and opposition groups in the past.

35.   Lukashenko, who has proposed rejoining his former Soviet republic to Russia, won virtually unlimited powers in a referendum last fall.

36.   Lukashenko, who won nearly unlimited powers in a national referendum last year, dropped the nationalist flag in favor of a more Soviet-style one.

37.   On Jordan, the report said the intelligence department has unlimited power to detain and question suspects without orders from a judicial body.

38.   President Alexander Lukashenko openly admires the Soviet system and rules by virtually unlimited powers he won in a referendum.

39.   President Lukashenko has amassed nearly unlimited powers in his former Soviet republic.

40.   President Lukashenko has amassed nearly unlimited powers in the former Soviet republic.