71.   Opposition deputies accused Dehaene of sacrificing his ministers to allow the government to cling to power.

72.   Opposition deputies asked a week ago for a special parliamentary session to address the case.

73.   Opposition deputies gathered Saturday and named as speaker Munoz Ledo, a former PRI president who bolted from the ruling party a decade ago.

74.   Opposition deputies kept up their attack until Thursday night balloting even though the most contested element of the bill was officially killed by lawmakers the night before.

75.   Opposition deputies said the vote Thursday means authorities are still trying to enforce the decrees to keep their grip on power.

76.   Opposition deputies were kept outside.

77.   Opposition deputies were prevented from entering the building by riot police, who surrounded the area as hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrated in front.

78.   Police also arrested Zoran Simonovic, an opposition deputy in the federal parliament from Kragujevac, during the blockade.

79.   Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar casually announced the dramatic decision in Parliament Wednesday when an opposition deputy asked when the government was going to name a new ambassador.

80.   Rather than meet while opposition deputies and thousands of people were on the streets, Milosevic postponed a session of the Serb parliament planned for Tuesday.