No one would ever confuse him with the Meciar known to the world as slavish supporter of the old hard-line Communist regime.

First, five scenarios were discussed ranging from a future hard-line authoritarian regime to a democratic revolution, accompanied by a total change of the ruling elite.

One of the central questions for the Middle East is whether Iran's hard-line Islamic regime will survive.

Moscow has refused, fearing that the Kabul Government would quickly be replaced by a hard-line Islamic regime.

The first is an even more hard-line regime still thumbing its nose at the rest of the world.

History has caught up with his hard-line regime; the future belongs to a people who no longer fear a Soviet veto.

There was the lingering danger that a hard-line regime might take power in Moscow and resume at least a mini-version of the cold war.

The protests were apparently touched off by ethnic tensions between the hard-line regime and the nation's Hungarian minority.

Albania, long home to the hardest of the hard-line Marxist-Leninist regimes, is a Communist state no more.