President Lyndon B. Johnson questioned the motives of demonstrators who called him a killer for his Vietnam policy, and President Richard M. Nixon, long reviled by some Americans, went so far as to compile an enemies list.

Die Stem van Suid-Afrika (The Call of South Africa), the Afrikaans poem long reviled by blacks as a vestige of apartheid, has now been rehabilitated as co-anthem of the unity Government.

Exploiting the changing composition of the Supreme Court, Meese had been systematically taking aim at a number of Supreme Court decisions long reviled by conservatives.

Signing the accord would clear the way, Israeli officials say, for a P.L.O. renunciation of its calls for destruction of Israel and for Israeli recognition of a group long reviled here as a terrorist organization.

It does not take much of a cynic to assume that there were both political and artistic considerations in the choice of Mr. Ivey to manage an agency long reviled by conservatives and accused of catering to artistic elitists.

The coverage reflects the new political reality in which Israel is dealing directly with an organization long reviled as a murderous terrorist group.

This coalition long reviled the Liberals as free thinkers, Masons and secularists, dangerously tolerant of Protestant missionaries.

He also called, for the first time among ruling Communist parties, for "friendly bonds" with the Socialist International, the grouping of democratic socialist parties long reviled by the Soviet Union and its allies.

But there was considerable caution as well, reflecting widespread queasiness among Israelis about the prospect of their national leader possibly shaking hands with a man long reviled here as a sponsor of terrorism.

Mr. Blumenthal, long reviled by Republicans as championing the "right-wing conspiracy theory" against the Clintons, told the grand jury that the President first described Ms. Lewinsky as a "stalker" and said she "threatened" to tell people "they'd had an affair."