Among other things, this change has dismayed some hard-line supporters of Israel in the United States.
A few of Mr. Campelo's more hard-line supporters, however, have drawn a different conclusion.
The hard-line supporters want you to do what we in Jamaica call 'lick out and mash.'
Most agree that it would be based on a statement on disarmament that both leaders could defend as honorable to their hard-line supporters.
That death set off demonstrations across the country protesting the rebels and their hard-line political supporters.
Anyone who doubts that those are changes of potential significance should look at the reaction among Mr. Reagan's hard-line conservative supporters.
Each also has a coterie of hard-line supporters who would not let him quit.
For the moment, Iran is sticking to bombastic rhetoric while doing nothing, to the chagrin of many of its hard-line supporters.
Only four of its nine members are hard-line supporters of public power.
Although Novella and his hard-line supporters in the capital had played no part in the negotiations, the settlement was inevitable.