41.   Still others fear that a centrist party might be tempted to make alliance with the Socialists.

42.   Slowly, the joy among KDP-backers at tipping the scales against their rivals has given way to anxiety about having made an alliance with Saddam.

43.   Still others fear that a centrist party might at some point be tempted to make alliance with the Socialists.

44.   The decision to end the alliance was made by the Social Democracy Party, senior in the two-party coalition.

45.   The evacuations follow the turmoil in northern Iraq, where a Kurdish group made an alliance with Saddam and took control of the area after routing a rival group.

46.   The governing parties are running separately but have agreed to make postelection alliances as needed.

47.   The northern alliance is made mainly of ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks.

48.   The Taliban have not made alliances with any of the other factions and say they want to impose strict shariah, or Islamic law.

49.   BT has already made alliances in Spain with Banco Santander and in Scandinavia with the national telecommunications companies of Norway, Finland and Denmark.

50.   British Airways, which has angered USAir by making an alliance with American Airlines, said that it had informed USAir of its intention to sell the shares.