51.   Yeltsin seized the political initiative Wednesday, sacking Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and all but one member of his Cabinet.

52.   With violence grinding on, no political initiatives appeared on the horizon.

53.   Yeltsin still retains enormous power and had appeared to regain the political initiative in the past few days.

54.   In addition to its humanitarian activity, the United Nations has also undertaken a political initiative to try to bring peace to Afghanistan.

55.   Balasingam had called for a political initiative from Colombo but at the same time accused the government of preparing for war in the north.

56.   Bosnian Serb officials warned this could escalate the war and that, instead, this might be the time for a new political initiative.

57.   But since then the mighty have fallen, the Republicans captured both houses of Congress and snatched the political initiative from the Democrats and Clinton.

58.   What we need at this stage is a strong political initiative coming from our top leaders.

59.   It could, if we remain vigilant, constitute more surely than any other political initiative the embryo of a new social culture founded -- at last!

60.   Kwasniewski, who had previously indicated he was prepared to take over, hedged when questioned on the issue Monday but said a new political initiative had become essential.