Mr. Hu also met his share of flag-waving supporters, of course, and the official parts of his trip - the meetings and agreement-signings with heads of state - were a diplomatic and commercial success.

At his last stop here at a pond-side rally, he told flag-waving supporters, "You can't get to the White House without winning Ohio, and I understand that.

At Howard Dean's primary-election-night party in a hotel ballroom here, flag-waving supporters on Tuesday ignored the television in the corner, which bore no good news.

Chanting and flag-waving supporters of General Pinochet outnumbered opponents outside the court in downtown London, but it was the anti-Pinochet faction that took heart from the day's proceedings.

"The big enemy is poverty," he told cheering, flag-waving supporters.

A5 Cuban Leader on the West Side President Fidel Castro denounced the American economic embargo against his country and presented a bleak vision of the world's future before thousands of cheering and flag-waving supporters gathered at Riverside Church in Manhattan.

He was met by 2,000 flag-waving supporters.

Chanting and flag-waving supporters of the general outnumbered opponents outside court.

About 30,000 flag-waving supporters rallied along a yellow-brick road running past the party headquarters to mark the overthrow a year ago today of Todor I. Zhivkov, the long-ruling Stalinist dictator.

Flanked by his British-born wife, Asma, and their two children, Assad told thousands of flag-waving supporters in Ummayad square that "victory against terrorists" was near and that "conspirators will fail".