61.   All across India, people crowded around their television sets to watch the early results of the third national election in three years.

62.   All the anchors have been doing this, because they feel guilty about blurting out the national election results hours before the polls have closed in the West.

63.   British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and others said they would work with Arafat if he was reelected in national elections expected as early as next year.

64.   Bush and Gore, who have been whacking at each other for weeks, signaled anew that the general campaign had begun eight months before the national election.

65.   British national elections in early June showed both moderate Protestants and Catholics losing ground in Northern Ireland.

66.   Busy with national elections of their own Monday, Canadians paid less attention than usual to the US race.

67.   But Bavaria has been conservative for three decades, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a prominent Munich newspaper, pointed out, and was hardly predictive of the national election.

68.   But Blair lent his considerable personal prestige to the battle, visiting Wales three times and marshaling once again the overwhelming support that Labor secured in the national election.

69.   But in Europe, the opposition never obtains a piece of the action or has any prospect of doing so, short of winning the next national election.

70.   But is he anywhere near the American mainstream that decides national elections?