41.   The conference that started Friday was meant in part to find a way to elect a successor.

42.   The election is aimed at electing a successor to Michal Kovac, an opponent of Meciar.

43.   The meeting in Nongowa Town was called to elect a successor to Sankoh.

44.   The parliamentary ballot was called by President Petru Lucinschi after the legislature failed four times in December to elect a successor.

45.   The vast majority of cardinals who will take part in the conclave to elect his successor owe their red caps, the symbol of their rank, to him.

46.   He proposed that an extraordinary party congress should be held to elect his successor.

47.   A special congress for the ruling Social Democratic party, called to elect a successor to Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, opened Friday in Stockholm.

48.   An electoral college of members of parliament and state politicians should then elect a successor.

49.   Deputies would have to elect any successor by a similar absolute majority.

50.   The party would elect his successor, he added.