"The administration persuaded Mrs. Packard that having her name on the gift would make the hospital more prestigious," Mr. Mitchell recalled.

The administration has persuaded the area MNAs, senators and Maliks to use their influence to broker a truce.

But the petitioners said that after nearly two years of asking for relief, neither the administration nor the I.M.F. had persuaded China to revalue its currency.

He said the administration had finally persuaded the agency that his budget plans would eventually slash the city's structural deficit.

In 1986, for example, the administration persuaded Congress to authorize the sale of Conrail, the federal corporation that ran much of the rail freight system.

Last November his administration persuaded landowners and New York City officials to agree to a plan to protect the city's upstate watersheds.

The administration persuaded the networks that self-censorship was necessary to the war effort.

Weeks later, the administration persuaded Japan and South Korea to halt oil shipments to the North.

But he expressed confidence that the administration could persuade enough Democrats who voted for the bill today to switch their positions in a veto override situation, and back Mr. Clinton.

Those carefully chosen words would make Iran's current activities illegal, as well as North Korea's - provided the administration can persuade the country to dismantle its two nuclear weapons projects.