He is also the figure at the center of the current maneuvering to pick Mr. Hosokawa's successor.

The current legal maneuvering revolves around a 1982 lawsuit filed by the Little Rock School District against the state and two neighboring districts.

Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest circulation newspaper, published a poll today that showed 60 percent of the people opposed Mr. Walesa's current maneuverings.

The current legal maneuvering has nothing to do with the betting charges, only the forum in which they are to be heard and decided.

When asked about the current political maneuvering, a spokesman, Rabbi Yehudah Krinsky, said: "I haven't the foggiest notion.

Complex Situation Though the situation is complex, most analysts expect the current maneuvering to result in an all-out acquisition of Britoil.

Much of the current political maneuvering has to do with the trivial-seeming detail of who gets to collect the extra premiums.

In the current maneuvering over the budget, Republicans have been promoting their "lockbox" proposal, pledging to "lock away" the Social Security surpluses.

Mr. Yaro and others suggested that this factor might explain some current maneuvering and tactics.

The dispute at the center of the current maneuvering began this month when Colonel Davis criticized Major Mori in an Australian newspaper.