1.   Although their economy is in good shape, many Slovenes are frustrated to see the former communist bosses retain political as well as economic power.

2.   For many years, the Dalai Lama has pursued a course of asking the communist bosses in Beijing for a political dialogue.

3.   He stomped through the sausage factory like the Communist boss he once was and made painfully unphotogenic grimaces during meetings with sailors aboard a navy cruiser.

4.   Ironically, the spectacle of his disintegration resembles nothing quite so much as the last years of the old Communist bosses before Mikhail Gorbachev.

5.   Now, Slobodan Milosevic, the former Communist boss of Yugoslavia, conspires with Tudjman to carve up Bosnia between them.

6.   The Communist boss Zyuganov exists only as a foil with no future.

7.   Yet the families of former communist bosses are getting rich by snapping up former state properties.

8.   Parliament has set up a special committee to look into how the secret services acquired the evidence against Oleksy, a former Communist regional boss.

9.   Parliament, meanwhile, set up a special committee to look into how the secret services came up with the evidence against Oleksy, a former Communist regional boss.

10.   A Communist boss accused journalists on Thursday of trying to discredit his party and threatened to file a libel suit against a newspaper.