71.   Ecuadorans voted Sunday in a tight presidential runoff between a conservative and populist to succeed President Sixto Duran Ballen for a four-year term.

72.   The presidential runoff on Grande Comore was the last in a series of elections that form a key part of a devolutionary process of constitutional reform.

73.   The scandal broke in June of last year, shortly after the presidential runoffs.

74.   Russians voted Wednesday in the decisive presidential runoff election as President Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly kept out of the public eye, sharply raising fears for his health.

75.   Russian President Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly voted in private Wednesday in the presidential runoff election at his country residence outside Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Sergei Medvedev said.