1.   Even in countries that clearly know where they are headed, the communist legacy has been harder to shake off than anyone thought it would be five years ago.

2.   Outsiders often find China impenetrable, blaming its complex language or the Communist legacy that keeps the nation secretive and closed to outsiders.

3.   Since he could not afford to jettison the Communist legacy, he set out to explain the most glaringly disastrous events as aberrations.

4.   President Zhelyu Zhelev, a former anti-Communist dissident, spoke on radio and TV late Saturday to a nation struggling to put its Communist legacy behind it.

5.   Bitter anger and the saga behind the bread shortages show that Bulgaria has not shaken its Communist legacy.

6.   But he cautioned that hard times lay ahead as the Balkan country shakes off its Communist legacy.

7.   By contrast, Gechev conceded only that the Communist legacy for Bulgaria is controversial.

8.   The region lags behind formerly communist central Europe in attracting foreign investment, mainly due to its more pervasive communist legacy and the Yugoslav wars of the past decade.

9.   Russia was casting off its communist legacy then and Clinton embraced Yeltsin as the democratic reformer who would usher in a new era between the former Cold War rivals.