1.   Black leaders have held demonstrations, candle-lighting ceremonies and town hall meetings over the controversy.

2.   The two leaders held private talks in June to try to resolve the dispute.

3.   Although Chinese leaders have held live news conferences in the past, they have never permitted uncensored debates with a foreign leader.

4.   And most union leaders hold their jobs until retirement or death.

5.   Angry Fatah leaders held demonstrations and strikes in several West Bank towns, prompting Arafat to move swiftly to defuse the crisis.

6.   As a result, leaders often hold onto their posts for years or even decades.

7.   Bank leaders hold a similar meeting every June to evaluate policy.

8.   Botswana also will receive praise for its environmental efforts at conserving its wild game, and environmental leaders will hold a round-table discussion with the president.

9.   African leaders hold few notions as sacred as the usually arbitrary borders drawn by and inherited from their European colonial rulers, because those frontiers define their power.