61.   For years, they worked in his shadow, governing a vast, fast-changing country as Deng Xiaoping slowly relinquished his power.

62.   He relinquished power to his government but kept the title of president.

63.   His remarks mostly suggested that Yeltsin is tired of being portrayed as a figurehead who has relinquished all power to his prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov.

64.   It instructed Iloilo, who was installed after the coup and appointed the interim government, to relinquish power and turn over his authority to the parliament.

65.   Kabila has rejected any truce until Mobutu relinquishes power, and his unchecked march across the country gives him little incentive to stop voluntarily.

66.   Masood said that Rabbani was willing to relinquish power.

67.   Mobutu headed to the solace of his palace in the northern town of Gbadolite, relinquishing power to his government but keeping the title of president.

68.   Military leaders declared the election invalid and refused to relinquish power.

69.   Radovan Karadzic, nationalist leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the bloody war in Bosnia, is relinquishing the powers of the presidency but not necessarily his authority.

70.   Rais reiterated a proposal that Suharto relinquish power to the special assembly that re-elected him in March unless he gets the economy back on track within six months.