This will mark the third government coalition for Mrs. Ciller, an American-trained economist who was the first woman to serve as Turkey's Prime Minister.

Vaclav Havel, the jailed playwright who became President, brought in an American-trained economist who became Prime Minister.

For decades, he accepted the counsel of American-trained economists who urged him to open his markets and rely on low-technology industries like garment-making.

The opposition presidential candidate in Honduras, Rafael Leonardo Callejas, an American-trained economist, claimed victory today in elections held on Sunday.

Carlos Salinas, a young, articulate, American-trained economist, had just been elected President of Mexico.

Nguyen Tien Hung, an American-trained economist who currently teaches at Howard University, was with the International Monetary Fund before being appointed special assistant to President Thieu in 1973.

"Behind us are 600 years as masters of the Ottoman Empire," said Yilidrim Akturk, an American-trained economist who is a member of Parliament.

When it came to macroeconomic stability issues, he said, "the Government always listened to the Berkeley mafia," referring to the American-trained economists responsible for much of the planning.

Today the market reforms ushered in by American-trained economists after the global collapse of Communism are facing their greatest challenge in the upheavals sweeping the region.

"The central bank will not be a cemetery for money," Mr. Eris, a 44-year-old American-trained economist, vowed after winning Senate confirmation last week.