61.   It is high time that all the elected authorities of the republic originate from the free choice of its citizens.

62.   He also ordered a stop to the unauthorized utilization by those authorities of produce already allocated for fulfilment of state orders.

63.   The four were accused by the authorities of directing and taking part in violent acts against Israel.

64.   Foreign observers also accused the authorities of widespread malpractice.

65.   The two charges concerned acts likely to incite people against the government and to undermine the authority of the President.

66.   A Croatian military statement from the Hercegovian capital of Mostar rejected the authority of the Sarajevo government and of the Bosnian defence forces.

67.   It established a monitoring mission to Estonia, where ethnic Russians, backed by the Russian government, were accusing the authorities of discriminating against them.

68.   In practice the system, once accepted, generates an element of co-ordinating authority of its own, based on its information content.

69.   By showing the authority of the apostolic see to judge in such matters the pope therefore showed his authority to decide on rulers.

70.   The authority of the law was his guiding principle.