1.   Activists pasted up posters criticizing the leftist leaders.

2.   A leftist Army leader, Hugo Chavez, was elected president of Venezuela last year.

3.   Justice Minister Freih Abu Meddein asked, referring to the leftist Meretz leader.

4.   Leftist leaders of the Democratic Revolutionary Party refused to accept any positions in the cabinet.

5.   Some leftist leaders contend that there are already signs that the government is taking advantage of their weakness.

6.   The meeting was also postponed because a leftist leader was undergoing root canal surgery and because the foreign minister was in Turkey.

7.   Traditional leftist leaders in Mexico urged him to restore damaged relations with Cuba, and officials in Washington pressed him to meet with the dissidents.

8.   Other leftist leaders said the same.

9.   PRI candidate Alfredo del Mazo trails badly in the polls to leftist leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.

10.   Another leftist leader, Piero Fassino, who heads a party of former Communist, denounced the attack.