1.   He was referring to Slobodan Milosevic, the authoritarian president of Yugoslavia.

2.   When workers demanded union rights a decade ago and denounced repression by an authoritarian president, they were championed by a longtime democracy campaigner named Kim Young Sam.

3.   Opposition forces had not had the strength and unity to oust its authoritarian president.

4.   A day earlier, the court dealt a blow to the increasingly authoritarian president, saying results of the long-disputed referendum cannot change the constitution.

5.   A prominent film director, whose documentary movie on the authoritarian president has been banned in Belarus, said Wednesday he was beaten up by unknown assailants.

6.   And he suggested that foreign countries are overreacting because they are biased against Belarus, whose authoritarian president has been criticized in the West.

7.   Authoritarian president seeks integration with Russia.

8.   But the relationship between the authoritarian president and at least some journalists in his pay has turned from cozy to critical.

9.   Diplomats scrambled to prevent Serb-Croat fighting Sunday in eastern Croatia as voters chose a new parliament expected to give even more power to their authoritarian president.

10.   Diplomats scrambled to prevent Serb-Croat fighting Sunday in eastern Croatia as voters chose a new parliament expected to strengthen the hand of their authoritarian president.