1.   Among the Egyptian groups that have condemned the attack is the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed Islamic organization that has broad popular backing.

2.   Habibie, who has little popular backing, may last only a few months.

3.   He is betting that if the promised economic turnaround emerges next year, he will have all the popular backing he needs to complete the transition to democracy.

4.   Nor should invasion troops be used when a president apparently is incapable of acquiring congressional support or popular backing for actions that inevitably would lead to unnecessary bloodshed.

5.   The Israeli prime minister has won broad popular backing from Israelis for his military offensive that followed a string of suicide bombings.

6.   But there are other, quieter gauges of the bedrock popular backing.

7.   Hamas apparently took the anger as a signal that it would have popular backing for renewed attacks.

8.   Hamas apparently took the anger as a sign that it would have popular backing for renewed attacks.

9.   New army offensive wins popular backing.

10.   Still, Western leaders, wanting to retain popular backing for the campaign against terrorism, are trying to allay public concern about the bombing.