It denounced Okinawan political leaders who "falsely claim to be our friends," calling them nuts, "and a bunch of wimps."

Ilir Hoxha, son of Enver Hoxha, is convicted of inciting national hatred for denouncing leaders of the Democratic Party in a newspaper interview.

In doing so, he had denounced Shiite leaders who have been accused of supporting government death squads.

The announcement came as Mr. Hussein's Government denounced President Bush and other Western leaders for dismissing the importance of an Iraqi plan to release all Western hostages by late March.

As a result, they have gone to considerable lengths to denounce Chinese leaders and to organize demonstrations of solidarity with the student-led democratic movement.

During her trip, Fonda made ten radio broadcasts in which she denounced American political and military leaders as "war criminals".

Thousands of Byelorussians, denouncing local leaders, marched through the center of Minsk today to demand further measures to clean up the aftermath of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.

The paper later said the editorial had caused numerous deaths and had toppled the pillars of the state by denouncing leaders as "capitalist roaders."

The other side responded with jeers, denouncing Iraqi Kurdish leaders.

Lenin and a small group of anti-war socialist leaders, including Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, denounced established socialist leaders of having betrayed the socialist ideal via their support of the war.