51.   Members of the former Soviet bloc have figured before in U.N. reports on illegal arms sales.

52.   NATO last week invited Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary to be the first former Soviet bloc nations to join the transatlantic military alliance.

53.   Now, with the collapse of communism, the former Soviet bloc is the latest region to be ransacked by thieves and smugglers for its art.

54.   Now, as head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he helps finance development projects and back businesses in the former Soviet bloc.

55.   Nowhere else is the religious revival more intense than in the former East bloc, the stronghold of Orthodoxy.

56.   Of all the heavily polluted countries in the former Eastern bloc, Slovakia has one of the worst records.

57.   One result is that former Soviet bloc states are now catching thousands of illegal migrants before they even reach the EU border.

58.   One reason is that the Walt Disney apparatchiks simply do a better job than their cynical counterparts in the former Soviet bloc.

59.   Oral history is also undergoing something of a renaissance because of the opening up of the former Soviet bloc countries.

60.   Rising unemployment was cited by many delegates as a crucial factor leading to an erosion of power for women in the former Soviet bloc.