Political analysts say it now seems that the coalition leadership of Prince Ranariddh and his royalist party with Mr. Hun Sen and his former Communist Party may have been doomed from the start.

In Morocco, many cartoonists used the belly dancer or male homosexual transvestite archetype to stereotype the coalition leadership.

The other side supports the efforts of the Kurds, working with the exile leaders of the Iraqi Shiites, and Sunni Arabs, to develop a democratic coalition leadership for all of Iraq.

But the members of the group have little direct connection with the elaborate 14-party coalition leadership that sponsored Mrs. Chamorro's candidacy.

Mr. Trenin of the Carnegie Endowment suggested that Mr. Putin might seek to put together a coalition leadership in Chechnya, although that would be difficult given the antagonisms among leading figures there.

That these terrorists, mostly Sunni Muslims from the so-called Sunni Triangle northwest of Baghdad, retain a stubborn fealty to the former dictator seems to puzzle the coalition leadership.

To the surprise of many diplomats and Cambodians, the King all but endorsed the coup, which ousted his own son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, as a partner in the country's coalition leadership.

Eight Black Hopefuls Mr. Tucker also said Joseph Salema, Mr. Florio's chief of staff, had said he would arrange a meeting between the Governor and the black coalition leadership in early January.

The agreement drew significant criticism, not only in Afghanistan, but also among the coalition leadership, where it was sometimes viewed as a major concession to the insurgency.

He has urged the royalist party to select a new leader to be the senior partner in the coalition leadership.