1.   But Mexicans are voting in nationwide elections Sunday, and the long-reigning Institutional Revolutionary Party is expected to sustain big losses.

2.   But with nationwide municipal elections scheduled for October, legislators want to be generous to win favor with voters, not to keep belts tightened.

3.   Financial markets and banks were closed today in Sao Paulo for the nationwide municipal elections.

4.   Instead, the elections appear set to ratify ethnic partition and have left many questioning the wisdom of holding nationwide elections in Bosnia scheduled for September.

5.   Likewise, the Constitution calls for members of Congress to be chosen state by state, rather than in nationwide elections.

6.   Rising from the ash can of the Soviet empire, the Russian Communist Party rolled today toward victory in nationwide parliamentary elections that left liberal reformers in disarray.

7.   That fight could prove difficult to win because about a quarter of lawmakers in Congress are expected to run for mayor in nationwide municipal elections slated for October.

8.   The groups are now demanding the elimination of reportedly corrupt politicians from their slates in a nationwide legislative election in April.

9.   The ouster attempt came two hours before polls opened in nationwide parliamentary elections.

10.   The postponement will be welcomed by the Bosnian Serbs and Croats, who feared that nationwide municipal elections could disrupt the ethnic partition.