41.   Ismail Abu Shanab, a top Hamas official, and other Palestinian opposition figures, await proof.

42.   Iraqi opposition figures also believe that recent international changes likely played a role in prompting Saddam to act.

43.   Labor unions and opposition figures in South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia have begun demanding an end to the IMF-forced liberalization.

44.   Key opposition figures were exultant Friday night, declaring that the government had submitted to their demands, raising the prospect of difficult battles ahead.

45.   Leading newspapers and Christian opposition figures now call openly for a Syrian pullout.

46.   Leaders of all three coalition factions then joined Sharon and other opposition figures outside Parliament in a rally with protesters from the Golan Heights.

47.   Many diplomats, religious leaders and opposition figures say that after months of political turmoil and intimidation around the country extensive election monitoring is essential.

48.   Lukashenko has dismissed reports of a government-backed death squad that singled out opposition figures, saying his opponents staged the disappearances to blacken his name.

49.   Milosevic, who has easily dispatched tamer opposition figures, appears to have found his match in Seselj.

50.   Mitra and other opposition figures, including their leader, Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Jr., were rounded up, jailed by the military and sidelined politically.