1.   Early election returns have begun to filter in.

2.   The presiding judge said that higher organs of the SED, beyond the city itself, clearly had been involved in the decision to falsify election returns.

3.   As the election returns rolled in on Sunday night and reverberated across Europe, there was silence from Chirac.

4.   As of Monday afternoon the electoral tribunal had made no further declarations concerning allegations of fraud in early election returns.

5.   As the lawyers fulminate and election returns remain in limbo, the one sure winner is President-elect Pyrrhus.

6.   At the Democratic headquarters a dozen blocks away, the walls were plastered with posters of the election returns.

7.   A tiny number of election returns on Tuesday showed the ruling party, Golkar, trailing, and the opposition party of Megawati Sukarnoputri in the lead.

8.   Alex Buha, the head of the ruling party, seemed quite content Friday as he reviewed the election returns.

9.   Bush said his father, former President George Bush, watched the election returns nervously from his home in Houston on Tuesday.

10.   But just as the old saw held, the Supreme Court reads the election returns.