Two liberals, Luis O. Reyes of Manhattan and Sandra E. Lerner of the Bronx, went to Mr. Thompson a few months ago and urged him to challenge Mrs. Gresser for the presidency.

Hu Shi, Cai Yuanpei, and other liberals urged the demonstrating students to return to the classroom, but Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, frustrated with the inadequacy of cultural change, used their roles as Peking University faculty to organize Marxist study groups and the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party.

Just as liberals urge Obama to do today, Bush barnstormed the country, pounding his message and pressuring Democrats, whom he cast as obstructionists.

In the letter, the liberals urged the introduction of a bill "that excludes controversial provisions and insist that such measures not be added on the Senate floor."

Like Richard Nixon on his way to China, the conservative stands a chance of carrying off something that liberals have urged for years.

For years, old-fashioned liberals have urged President Clinton to embrace the cause of the poor more directly.

Other liberals, like Leon Wieseltier, who wrote a string of editorials in The New Republic, urged a reluctant Bush Administration, and then the Clinton Administration, to act.

But liberals and some conservatives in Congress have repeatedly raised concerns about whether the law has given the federal government too much power and have urged a go-slow approach in considering whether it should be renewed in its entirety.

They discover in Z's analysis "what Western liberals and moderates have been urging all along - arms control and cooperative arrangements to develop market structures and joint economic ventures . . ." Wrong.