Mr. Chen, who is ailing, lives in the leadership compound known as Zhongnanhai.

Mr. Zhu said, referring to the leadership compound in Beijing.

Under his leadership compound locomotives and rack railway engines were procured for the first time.

More than 10,000 followers of a religious cult surrounded China's leadership compound today, demanding recognition from authorities who are wary of any group not easily controlled.

Thousands of young Red Guards were allowed into Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound in central Beijing.

They met this morning inside the government's leadership compound, Zhongnanhai.

His world was Zhongnanhai, the central leadership compound where he worked, rather than Tiananmen Square next door.

American officials were struggling today to assess which leaders, if any, were killed in the attack on a leadership compound in Baghdad that inaugurated the war.

Even if efforts by many of them to direct mystical energy at the leadership compound fell short, their impressive organization left a significant imprint on Beijing.

The attack on the leadership compound came as United States marines continued building a makeshift base around an airstrip about 80 miles southwest of Kandahar.