41.   Growth was a hot issue in the March municipal election, and Mayor-elect Vern Stiffler won with a slow-the-growth pitch.

42.   He attributed the increase in asylum requests to repression in various Mexican state and municipal elections.

43.   IFOR will similarly help with the municipal elections, provided that they take place before the end of our mandate.

44.   In municipal elections last month, the Islamic Movement took partial control of the city council for the first time.

45.   In municipal elections to be held in coming months in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Hamas is expected to participate.

46.   In recent interviews, leaders of the state Republican and Democratic Parties said they would not inject large sums of soft money into the municipal election.

47.   Interfax said one of its reporters spoke to Yeltsin Sunday at the sanitorium as he cast his vote for the Moscow municipal elections.

48.   It is also a delicate moment to push the measure, on which Italians are divided, because municipal elections are coming up at the end of May.

49.   It breaks all records for spending in municipal elections by tens of millions of dollars.