Communists, under a variety of guises, still run the other four republics, but elections are scheduled in each before year's end.

Yet after six months of relentless campaigning across this vast nation, the Communists have essentially run in place.

A year ago, the Communists ran the country.

You might have Communists running things, or even, God forbid, black people.'

The Communists were running for 294 of the 299 seats in the 460-seat lower chamber that are reserved to them under accords with Solidarity.

In each country, though Communists now run things, the far-reaching policies survived largely intact and command widespread support.

The Chinese Communists are running their own private supermarket in the nuclear, chemical and missile businesses.

The permanent government should be chosen by an election in which the Communists can run, after the millions of refugees return.

Even the Communists, history's own eternally patient master scientists, ran out of breath and despaired in the end.

Communists who favor change are still running the country, although their once monolithic party has split into three, possibly four factions.