81.   Russian parliament deputies dropped a bid to launch impeachment proceedings against President Boris Yeltsin Thursday, despite opposition calls for him to resign on grounds of ill health.

82.   Riot police in central Tirana earlier prevented demonstrators answering an opposition call to gather in Skanderbeg square in defiance of an official ban on demonstrations in the capital.

83.   Several coalition partners of the dominant Hindu nationalist BJP party have echoed the opposition calls for Modi to go.

84.   Speaker of the Bulgarian parliament Blagovest Sendov on Sunday lent his backing to opposition calls for early elections.

85.   The Algiers leadership has rejected an opposition call for negotiations, issued after a parley in the Italian capital.

86.   The authorities deployed tight security around Shiite Moslem areas on Tuesday following opposition calls to step up protests at the end of the Ramadan holy month.

87.   The Algiers leadership has rejected an opposition call for negotiations, issued after the parley in the Italian capital.

88.   The Financial Times Deutschland Thursday identified the German official as Scharping, leading to opposition calls to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that he sack the minister.

89.   The opposition boycott call followed a failure to secure government agreement to have the poll supervised by joint commissions.

90.   The picture was the same in the south, where officials said turnout was good despite the opposition boycott call.