1.   Are blacks better off controlling a few districts or influencing a lot and winning fewer?

2.   Political parties select candidates from the caste that controls each district, and lower-caste and higher-caste politicians often maintain militias.

3.   The agency said fighting continued in Grozny, and that Chechen forces still controlled several districts in the southern part of the devastated capital.

4.   The district is controlled by Russian peacekeepers under an agreement with the Commonwealth of Independent States.

5.   The news agency also said fighting continued in Grozny, and that Chechen forces still controlled several districts in the southern part of the devastated capital.

6.   Different districts are still controlled by factional militia backing Kolelas, Lissouba or former president Denis Sassou Nguesso.

7.   Under the plan, Mostar would be divided into three Bosnian Croat sections, three Moslem districts and one jointly controlled district.

8.   Maskhadov conceded that his troops no longer controlled the district.

9.   Moskhadov conceded that his troops no longer controlled the district.