31.  However, the German opposition has criticised his meeting with Yeltsin as representing tacit support for the embattled Russian president.

32.  Criticism has also come from Austria, Portugal, Spain and German opposition parties.

33.  For some years German opposition parties have sought in vain to get a blanket rehabilitation measure through parliament.

34.  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was widely criticized by German opposition leaders during his visit here in June for including several neo-fascist ministers in his cabinet.

35.  Mitterrand also paid tribute to the resistors in other occupied countries, including the internal German opposition to the Nazi regime.

36.  Moscow denied that the plutonium came from Russia, and the German opposition accused the German secret services of staging a deliberate seizure to draw attention to the trafficking.

37.  President Bill Clinton was to meet with German opposition leader Oskar Lafontaine at the White House Thursday to discuss unemployment and other issues.

38.  Resistance to use of the Gorleben centre has crystallised German opposition to nuclear power in recent years.

39.  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday held talks in the Kremlin with German conservative opposition leader Angela Merkel, welcoming the strength of relations between Berlin and Moscow.

40.  The camp was initially for German opposition figures, communists, social democrats and trade unionists.