71.  Based on early returns, the governing socialist party of British Prime Minister Tony Blair was expected to lose seats.

72.  Beleaguered Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez received another blow Thursday when a deputy representing his own Socialist party in parliament demanded he resign and call early elections.

73.  Belgian authorities have arrested the former head of the Socialist party and two others in connection with alleged bribes in government acquisition of helicopters, a newspaper reported Saturday.

74.  Berisha reluctantly appointed Fino, a member of the opposition Socialist party, to lead a caretaker government earlier this month in an attempt to pacify the country.

75.  Berisha sharply differs with the Austrian, insisting that the insurgents are nothing but stooges for his strongest rivals, the Socialist party of ex-communists.

76.  Berisha sharply disagrees, insisting that the insurgents are nothing but stooges for his strongest rivals, the Socialist party of ex-communists.

77.  Berisha reluctantly appointed Fino, a member of the opposition Socialist party, earlier this month in an attempt to pacify the country.

78.  Besides the Basque party, the main opposition Socialist party based in Madrid and three Catalan parties were among those expected to make claims.

79.  Both the Socialist party and the ruling center-right Popular Party are united against ETA, which has targeted and killed politicians from both parties in recent years.

80.  Bulgarians blaming the Socialist party of former communists for their economic misery are expected to deal them a crushing defeat Saturday, when they vote for a new parliament.