1.   Separately, a Socialist appeal to a municipal court in Nis was rejected last week, upholding the opposition victory there.

2.   The government of President Slobodan Milosevic Friday conceded for the first time a handful of opposition election victories that it earlier annulled.

3.   The opposition victories were overturned in the courts, which then ordered fresh elections.

4.   An opposition victory would allow it to open a corridor for military and humanitarian supplies from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.

5.   And Milosevic continues to play for time, first accepting some opposition victories, but then backtracking.

6.   But Ankica Bojic, too, wants an opposition victory.

7.   But despite the disillusionment, none spoke of turning to strikes and joining the demonstrations that have swept the cities since the government annulled opposition election victories.

8.   But none speak of turning to strikes and joining the demonstrations that have swept the cities since the government annulled opposition election victories.

9.   But there are two overriding reasons for desiring an opposition victory.

10.   Coupled with the findings of private opinion polls, this prompted investors to sell French assets as a hedge against the likelihood of an opposition victory.