71.   His mandate expires in December.

72.   It has said it will oppose a second term of office for Boutros-Ghali whose current mandate expires at the end of the year.

73.   Arafat promised the polls amid mounting pressure to overhaul his administration, whose mandate has expired and which is widely accused of corruption and inefficiency.

74.   As head of state and of the French armed forces, Mitterrand has the final say, but his mandate expires next May.

75.   Belgium will withdraw its troops from Eastern Slavonia if NATO forces leave Bosnia after their one-year mandate expires, Belgian officials said Wednesday.

76.   Bobryshev replaced General Valeri Patrikeeva, whose mandate had expired.

77.   But the EU administration, whose mandate expires in July, is engaged in a race against time.

78.   Croatia had previously called for all UN troops to withdraw by the end of June after when their current mandate expires at the end of March.

79.   Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has ordered the UN troops out when their mandate expires in March, but the White House said that it still hoped he would relent.

80.   Earlier Chirac said he hoped Boutros-Ghali would stand for a second term as UN secretary general when his mandate expires at the end of this year.