The reported sentences were seen as generally mild by the standards of the hard-line Government.

He has been asked repeatedly how he will fit into a hard-line government.

All financial markets are likely to continue to be volatile while the new hard-line Government moves to consolidate its control.

General Suharto headed a hard-line government that ruled the country for three decades.

"In other democracies it is common to run for re-election, but our experience here has been that it leads to hard-line governments."

Perhaps as a result, the first major public signs of fear, tension and conflict are beginning to appear within the hard-line Czechoslovak Government.

Several grass-roots Communist groups today joined the burgeoning movement for democracy and attacked the hard-line Government.

Many Chinese see the comeback of the two losers as a measure of how isolated the hard-line Government has become.

Perhaps more important, his case is a measure of the degree to which the hard-line Government has isolated itself from the younger generation of Communists.

The uncertainty over the new policies of the hard-line Communist Government are an important source of apprehension.