41.  The appeal came a day after a deadline for all legal parties to accept plans for the presidential balloting.

42.  The FMLN became a legal political party.

43.  The FMLN, as it is known, fought a series of U.S-backed Salvadoran governments and now is a legal party.

44.  The government had ordered all legal parties to accept plans for presidential balloting by Saturday.

45.  The opposition first wants Zeroual to open peace talks on the basis of a proposal drafted reached in Rome last month by the Salvation Front and leading legal parties.

46.  The opposition wants Zeroual to open peace talks on the basis of a proposal drafted reached in Rome last month by the Salvation Front and leading legal parties.

47.  The outlawed IRA stopped its campaign against British rule in July to clear the way for its legal Sinn Fein party to enter the Belfast talks two months later.

48.  The presidency on Thursday issued a memorandum giving legal parties two weeks to comment on plans for the presidential election.

49.  The party appealed to right-wing supporters of the Arab Socialist Union, which until then had been the sole legal party in Egypt.

50.  The three legal parties are the ruling Golkar party, the United Development Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party.