71.   The pro-western Cabinet backs the move, while the leftist opposition vigorously rejects it and has organized street protests against it.

72.   Viorel Lis, the acting mayor, and Sorin Oprescu, a respected surgeon from a leftist opposition party, have the best chances.

73.   But Oleksy and the leftist opposition, which holds a majority in parliament, dispute this view and say the president must endorse their choice.

74.   Former Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega was re-elected secretary general of the Sandinista National Liberation Party Monday at a convention that exposed rifts in the leftist opposition party.

75.   They will essentially pit Ukrainian leaders who favor drastic economic reforms against leftist opposition parties.

76.   Members of the leftist opposition have called in vain for the tomb to be moved.

77.   Police arrested leftist opposition leader Oscar Eid Franco in a police raid Monday after investigators linked him to imprisoned drug traffickers, an opposition lawmaker said.

78.   Sadat had encouraged the creation of the Jamaa, which grouped Brotherhood members and other moderate Islamist students, to balance the vocal leftist opposition.

79.   The leftist opposition Meretz party has called for a police investigation into the affair.

80.   The leftist opposition strongly opposed the Zapfenstreich festivities as soon as they were announced by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last spring.