11.   Balaguer and Medina, a centrist, are widely expected to unite in a second round of voting against leftist leader and current front-runner Hipolito Mejia.

12.   Cardenas, a veteran leftist leader, was in his third presidential campaign.

13.   Cardenas, a veteran leftist leader who finished in third place, was in his third presidential campaign.

14.   Elisa Carrio, a leftist congressional leader, blasted politicians for aggravating the economic crisis with public feuding.

15.   He lauded the appointment of leftist leader Horacio Morales as the next agrarian reform secretary.

16.   He was a supporter of Juan Bosch, the leftist leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party.

17.   In the same graphic breath on Wednesday, Gonzalez smeared a respected leftist leader, Julio Anguita, and called him incompetent to boot.

18.   It may seem odd that a leftist leader and friend of Fidel Castro would treat organized labor as an enemy.

19.   Last month, suspected Maoist gunmen killed five leftist leaders in an attack on a public rally in neighboring Kushtia district.

20.   Leftist congressional leader Elisa Carrio accused politicians of aggravating the economic crisis with the highly public feuding.