61.   Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma informally launched his re-election campaign Wednesday, denouncing his leftist foes for allegedly trying to drag the former Soviet republic into its Communist past.

62.   Unlike other former Soviet Bloc countries, Romania never made a clean break with its Communist past.

63.   Weary of poverty and corruption, Romanians finally got rid of their Communist past when they voted for Constantinescu and his center-right Democratic Convention alliance.

64.   Zhelev, like leaders of other formerly Communist countries, wants Bulgaria to join NATO to make a break with the Communist past and seek security in the West.

65.   Yeltsin said the music symbolizes the communist past, the vestiges of which he tried to shed during his tenure.

66.   He has largely succeeded in burying his own communist past.

67.   A Romanian law dating from its communist past punishes homosexual acts even between consenting adults.

68.   Accusing the Serbian leaders of a communist past, the pupils asked for secondary school entrance examinations to be scrapped.

69.   Along the way, he largely succeeded in burying his own communist past.

70.   As the head of a parliamentary commission of enquiry into corruption, Lukachenko has managed virtually to bury his communist past.