Sooner or later, all discussions about the Express situation focus on the paper's crusading editor, Arun Shourie, a one-time supporter and confidant of Mr. Gandhi who turned against him this year.

The case, which became a major issue in last year's Senate campaign in Florida, has left divided camps of friends and foes from Tampa to Washington, with even some one-time supporters of Mr. Al-Arian now questioning his activities.

The construction proposal, however, has unsettled even some of the hospital's one-time supporters.

Alfonso Robelo A veteran rebel leader and experienced political operator. . . . A one-time ardent supporter of the Sandinistas, he objected to their monopolization of power and left Nicaragua in 1982.

Although much of it could be traced back to embittered defendants eager to take the shine off Mr. Spitzer's reputation, a few one-time supporters also questioned his judgment.

The Mayor's term has left one-time supporters like Antonio Burgos Jr. disillusioned.

A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965.

Said to be a one-time supporter of the Entrist and Trotskyist group "Militant" within the Labour Party-which he denies- Byers publicly rejected the group's approach by 1986.

It also defied predictions that it would not survive the collapse of its one-time supporter, the Soviet Union.

A1 Mr. Nagin was as unruffled in his victory as he has been facing defeat, better-funded opponents, a cataclysmic flood, and the defection of one-time supporters.