The move by Georgia today was the first test of the new, hard-line leadership installed three weeks ago at the national Interior Ministry.

Iran's hard-line leadership, meanwhile, needs time to solve the technological challenge of enriching enough uranium to make an atomic bomb.

China's hard-line leadership has been clearly pleased with its recent foreign policy achievements.

Bulgaria's hard-line Communist leadership said today that it would increase efforts to carry out political and economic change.

Since then, the hard-line leadership installed by the Kremlin has long tried to force the remaining and new professionals to work without incentives.

Serbia, however, has a hard-line Communist leadership and along with Montenegro continues to follow a one-party system.

But after the democracy movement in China, which Hong Kong helped finance, the hard-line leadership made clear that control was paramount.

To be sure, suspension would hurt the political prestige of Beijing's hard-line leadership.

The hard-line leadership wants to restore Maoist phrases, while young people tug the language toward the West.

International China's economy is booming under hard-line Communist leadership, with a 6 percent growth rate and low inflation.