Even so, he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740-1.

The protests in Belgrade, the capital, began after Mr. Milosevic's Government took similar action there to overturn another victory by a local opposition slate.

The opposition slate for the Senate eventually won by a landslide.

A former ally, Dorothy Ryan, who has served three times as president of the board, heads the opposition slate, the Parent Teacher Alliance.

It appeared that the endorsement of the Shiite Hezbollah Party was critical for the opposition slate.

And he said that when he privatized garbage collection, the former city sanitation chief rallied an opposition slate that won the November election.

By that time, Trbovich had the support of 16 of the members on the board and an opposition slate was forming to challenge Miller in the 1977 presidential election.

The number of opposition slates may be to Mr. Toussaint's advantage, since it means that union members unhappy with his tenure will split their votes.

Among the winners were many of the country's most influential businessmen and intellectuals, most of whom ran on the opposition slate.

But unlike the opposition slate last year, which included former Gov. Richard Lamm of Colorado, none of the dissidents have national profiles.