For most of the 1980s, Thailand was ruled by Prem Tinsulanonda, a democratically inclined strongman who restored parliamentary politics.

Administration officials speak enthusiastically about what Mr. Clinton called "the new face of Africa" and about a new breed of democratically inclined leaders.

To hear Claude Raymond tell it, he is just one of several democratically inclined candidates who pin their hopes for an end to chaos here on elections in November.

It was a shabby but deserved ending to almost 15 years of rule by a man who was once praised as Central Asia's most democratically inclined leader.

The West has indicated that it wants to accentuate the isolation of the Serbian leader by supporting Montenegro's democratically inclined government.

In each case the censorial voice was not that of the South African Government but of a public organization that regards itself as democratically inclined and politically progressive.

Move to Cut Off Radicals Judging from the state press, the Soviet leadership seemed to be trying to separate the more democratically inclined front leaders from a more radical faction.

One potential successor was Gen. Carlos Prats, the democratically inclined commander whom the far right forced to resign.

Janis Jurkans, the somewhat more democratically inclined former Foreign Minister, gained 6 percent.

If he does not run, then the bitterly divided reform movement will have to produce a candidate that most democratically inclined voters can support.