41.   Unlike Polish or Hungarian former communists, the Russian variants still preach anti-Western and anti-reform sentiment.

42.   Only the former East German communists demanded an end to the military action.

43.   Only the former East German communists voted against the plan.

44.   Opinion polls in the past month put Solidarity neck and neck with the ruling party of former communists.

45.   Other disputes could include the attitude to former communists, who some Solidarity factions say should be barred from holding senior parliamentary offices.

46.   Pacula said that public performance of the music during the convention of former communists without such a license was a violation of the law.

47.   Parliament and the government is dominated by the Socialist Party, made up of former communists.

48.   Police said the former East German communists received a letter containing the threat Friday from Olaf Juergen Staps, who was already being sought on arson charges.

49.   Parliament on Friday rejected a proposal that would have banned the president, prime minister and other former communists from public and political office for five years.

50.   President Zhelyu Zhelev accused the Socialist government Friday of being undemocratic and trying to usurp the state media in one of his toughest attacks yet against the former communists.