51.   In past years, a few opposition deputies sometimes shouted challenges to the president from the floor, but they were generally drowned out by the heavy PRI majority.

52.   It also briefly strained otherwise good relations with the United States, when opposition deputies in parliament threatened to annul the deal last year.

53.   It was not immediately clear whether other opposition deputies would join the boycott.

54.   It was not clear who made the tape, which got into the hands of an opposition deputy.

55.   Jan Klas, the opposition deputy who heads the parliamentarian committee that oversees the BIS, contended the move was long planned.

56.   Klaus appealed to the legislature to endorse his program and cabinet, while Havel reminded opposition deputies of agreements reached with the coalition government to ensure stable government.

57.   Later, Chen Tsun-hsiung, another Nationalist, tackled opposition deputy Chen Chin-teh by the legs to prevent him from taking the podium.

58.   Manukian, a lawmaker, has been in hiding since the Armenian parliament stripped immunity from him and seven other opposition deputies blamed for organizing the protests.

59.   Milosevic apparently did not want to hold the session while opposition deputies and thousands of people were on the streets.

60.   Opposition deputies claim U.S. agricultural imports are subsidized and then sold below their market price in Mexico, a practice they say hurts domestic farmers.