But secessionist leaders have pointed to everything from potholed streets to slow police response times to argue that a smaller government would be more responsive.

These protests were followed by the strike call by the secessionist leaders.

He hoped for compromise, but secessionist leaders did not want compromise.

The simultaneous appearance of militias loyal to secessionist leaders only hastened the descent into chaos.

A1 The secessionist leader spurned an offer from President Yeltsin.

Secondly, it politically and financially back secessionist leaders in the NWFP in the 1960s.

With most loyalists feeling betrayed by Lincoln, secessionist leaders quickly moved to exploit the shift in public opinion.

"We have nothing to talk about with them," Mr. Ioseliani said of the Abkhazian secessionist leaders.

The Toro independence movement was defeated in 1970, and a majority of the secessionist leaders were murdered in 1972.

Such a move has been ruled out by Abkhazia's secessionist leaders, who took control of the province in September.