A similar, apparently orchestrated, terror campaign preceded the aborted elections last year.

Even before the aborted election, members of Islamic militias and other militant groups would torment and sometimes kill women who refused to wear the traditional veil.

Following the violence at the aborted national elections of 1987, the 1990 elections were approached with caution.

After the aborted elections, the United States cut off nearly $80 million of non-humanitarian aid.

Two months after the aborted election, the union issue is once again off the agendas of the factory and the government.

He was speaking of the period that led to the aborted 1992 elections.

International human rights groups have long suspected army involvement in the violence that followed an aborted national election in 1990, when the military stepped in to prevent an Islamic party from winning.

Punjabis say an aborted election will push them further into alienation.

A1 Members of Haiti's electoral council, which was disbanded by the Government after an aborted presidential election, refused to accept the Government action, heightening a tense confrontation.

"It's an open door to all kinds of machinations," said Ernst Mirville, the president of the civilian group that organized the aborted election last month.