51.   Despite international pressure to ease up on government opponents, security forces detained activists and blocked a U.S. envoy from the trial of four well-known dissidents charged with sedition.

52.   Diaz Sotolongo said that under electoral rules, government opponents could become candidates.

53.   Dissidents have clashed repeatedly with the security forces in recent weeks, and police have arrested several hundred government opponents.

54.   During the apartheid era, police were used as a political force to suppress government opponents.

55.   Each also accuses the other of harboring government opponents.

56.   Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey have said government opponents are using Europe as a base for operations.

57.   Egyptians returned to the polls Wednesday to choose two-thirds of parliamentary seats in run-off elections tarnished by violence and reported arrests of government opponents.

58.   Evidence at a recent trial of a former police colonel disclosed how some units routinely killed and tortured government opponents.

59.   Ferrara denounced suggestions by Bossi and leftist government opponents that a new parliament majority could be formed without elections.

60.   Ferrara denounced suggestions by Northern League leader Umberto Bossi and leftist government opponents that a new parliament majority could be formed without elections.