Slovakia's leading politician, Vladimir Meciar, favors easing the austerity program.

During the campaign, Mrs. Whitman said she favored easing the law to allow people to legally keep semiautomatic weapons that they owned before the ban took effect.

France also favors easing sanctions, partly because it has high hopes of developing lucrative commercial ties with Iraq.

Has said he favors easing state's strict drug-possession penalties.

Ms. Snyder says she favors easing the measures more.

The advertisements are to broadcast first in Washington, D.C., Mr. Cardenas said, and later in the districts of selected lawmakers who favor easing sanctions.

At that meeting, many economsits expect Fed officials to settle on a policy favoring further easing moves, contingent on weak economic data and, of course, continued low inflation readings.

He meant Congress, which favored easing the money supply and selling bonds in a public offering.

Lobbyists who favor easing the abortion laws said they were pleased with the victory.

Search by Israelis Canada wants the Secretary General to retain ultimate control over the archives, although it favors easing the rules of access to them.