31.  Now, it is the Communist bosses, and not U.S.-propped presidents, to blame.

32.  Oleksy, a former provincial communist party boss, has acknowledged frequent contacts with Russian and Soviet diplomats, but claimed innocence and insisted they were of social nature.

33.  Oleksy, a former regional Communist party boss, is to begin talks on Monday with Pawlak and other Peasant Party leaders on a new Cabinet.

34.  President Geidar Aliyev, a former communist boss who has led the oil-rich Caucasus Mountain country since it gained independence, has enjoyed popular support.

35.  Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy, a former altar boy, was also a regional Communist boss in the authoritarian regime Walesa and the pope worked so hard to defeat.

36.  Some feel Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy, a former regional Communist boss, should suspend his duties.

37.  The Czech judiciary has been criticized for being too slow in bringing the former communist bosses to justice for crimes they had committed when in power.

38.  The former Communist boss of North Ossetia overwhelmingly defeated the long-serving leader of the southern Russian region in presidential elections, officials said Monday.

39.  Yeltsin, a former Communist party boss, makes highly publicized visits to church on holidays.

40.  Yeltsin, never a churchgoer in his days as a Communist boss, regularly summons Patriarch Alexy II to Kremlin ceremonies and makes high-profile visits to cathedrals.