Mr. Minton became a dedicated foe of the church after learning of what he considered its heavy-handed efforts to silence the critics.

But several diplomats left the meeting accusing the Government of a heavy-handed effort to manipulate public opinion.

His supporters say the charges are a baseless, heavy-handed effort to silence an internationally known critic.

"There were heavy-handed and under-handed efforts to reverse or to impose analytical conclusions," she said.

"Respondent's heavy-handed effort to dictate what the attorney placed on the record was highly injudicious," the commission wrote.

Many Senate Republicans were outraged by the subpoena, calling it a heavy-handed effort at intimidation.

The defense argued that the undercover operation was a heavy-handed effort by the Government to arrest a black leader.

The method, however, subsequently was undercut by heavy-handed efforts to increase farm production and amalgamate farms into ever-larger units.

Its biggest flaw is a heavy-handed and probably unconstitutional effort to ban "indecent material" from the Internet.

The confrontation was sharpened by the ruling party's occassionally heavy-handed efforts to restrict the opposition's access to the Government-controlled television and radio network.