1.   But an opposition win, he said, will mean more than easing traffic or cleaning air pollution.

2.   Opposition wins, ruling party trounced in vote tally.

3.   Bookmakers said gamblers have placed hundreds of thousands of dollars on an opposition win.

4.   But Pangalos said a report by an international fact-finding mission endorsing the opposition wins had to be respected.

5.   But opposition members fear that Tudjman could again ignore an opposition win.

6.   He had formerly urged that the opposition wins be respected.

7.   In fact, all signs point to an opposition win in the legislative elections.

8.   Milosevic apparently was hoping to end street protests which began when he annulled those opposition wins and developed into a grass-roots revolt against his rule.

9.   Milosevic has defended the election process as fair, but publicly has been careful to keep a distance from the election commissions and courts that overturned the opposition wins.

10.   Milosevic opted for the law apparently hoping to end street protests which began when he annulled opposition wins.