41.   Peace prize nominations are accepted mainly from members of national legislatures, some university professors, awards committee members, former laureates and a few organizations.

42.   Premier Li Peng, in a March report to the national legislature, said reforming the state-run sector was his top priority of the year.

43.   Prosecutors have closed their investigation, begun in September, Procurator-General Zhang Siqing said in a report to the national legislature.

44.   A veteran activist issued a letter Sunday urging the national legislature to ratify United Nations human rights covenants intended to provide broad, basic guarantees of civil liberties.

45.   A U.N. human rights treaty that China signed last year will soon be forwarded to the Chinese national legislature for ratification, a legislative official said Friday.

46.   Aleman sent the law to the national legislature shortly after he took office in January.

47.   Although the elections are for candidates that will not sit in national legislatures, they are a barometer of how their political parties fare at home.

48.   Arlacchi said he expected national legislatures to swiftly ratify the treaty.

49.   At the annual meeting of the national legislature, they pat each other on the back for the television cameras and speak with one voice.

50.   But in three days the representatives were only able to see the speaker of the national legislature.