71.   The Croatian president said that he was well enough to run for president in elections due later this year.

72.   The High Court in Zambia rejected opposition claims that the government had hired Israeli agents to rig elections due late this year.

73.   The incident was under investigation and it was not yet possible to say if there were any links to the elections due Sunday, he added.

74.   The Moslem fundamentalist group has announced plans to enter elections due this November as individuals unlike previous contests which the group has boycotted.

75.   The only remaining candidate challenging President Robert Mugabe in elections due this weekend launched a last-ditch attempt Friday to have the elections postponed.