81.   Villaraigosa, the former Assembly speaker, missed the first meeting after his appointment to the panel last summer, according to the minutes.

82.   While Lazio has sought to connect Clinton to Cuomo, she has moved to link her opponent to Newt Gingrich, the Republican former House speaker.

83.   Wright said he always tried to follow in the mold of his mentor, Sam Rayburn, a former House speaker and a fellow Texan.

84.   Parliament on Wednesday agreed to allow its former speaker to be prosecuted for alleged corruption.

85.   Other top candidates include Communist Party chief Petro Symonenko and Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, a former parliamentary speaker.

86.   A former speaker of lower house of parliament was sentenced Saturday to five years imprisonment for corruption and abuse of power, court officials said.

87.   Abdul-Latif Arabiat, a former parliamentary speaker and secretary-general of the front, was elected head of the Shura Council.

88.   A third candidate, former parliamentary speaker Kastriot Islami, withdrew from the race earlier in the day.

89.   Among those attending were former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, former speaker of the House of Representatives Takako Doi and fashion designer Hanae Mori.

90.   Besides Kuchma, likely candidates include the former speaker of parliament, Oleksandr Moroz, former premier Yevhen Marchuk and Communist Party chief Petro Symonenko.