Solidarity strategists interpreted the remarks as an effort to placate party hard-liners.

In his final years, he was one of the leading old-time party hard-liners, one of the dinosaurs, as they are known here.

Rather than take the advice of party hard-liners who pushed for a coup, Mr. Banzer accepted the results.

The Russian President, who admits to concern about vengeful party hard-liners, is sometimes protected by portable shields in public.

He is certainly right, but the party hard-liners did not appreciate this view.

But the danger seems to come more from impatience for both autonomy and material improvement than from party hard-liners or the military.

He was reported to have jumped out a window six days after party hard-liners' attempt at a coup failed.

He helped me get a passport to leave Cuba in 1965 when party hard-liners were persecuting me.

Suddenly it is the party hard-liners who are prominently mentioned in Chinese news accounts describing the reaction to the protests.

They say he agreed to reforms that he had wanted all along but could not put forth because of resistance by party hard-liners.