"People are tired of the war," said Norberto Morales Ballesteros, the president of the House of Representatives and a leader of Mr. Barco's Liberal Party.

George Roche, president of Hillsdale College and a prominent conservative leader, is caught in allegations that he had a 19-year affair with his daughter-in-law, the mother of his grandchild.

"Excruciatingly disappointing," said Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way and a leader of the liberal coalition opposing Judge Alito.

"It's been a good neighbor," said Leonard Gutterman, president of the West Birchwood Civic Association in nearby Jericho and a leader of the opposition to the multiplex.

Carroll Vincent Newsom, the president of New York University from 1956 to 1961 and a leader in educational television, died Saturday at his home in Dublin, Ohio.

Mrs. Beech was a past president of the Women's International Association of Aeronautics and a leader in other aviation organizations.

Added Mike Fox Sr., president of the local Anheuser-Busch distributorship and a local civic leader: "The name 'Sharks,' it bites you.

Adolph Strasser, president of the Cigar Makers' International and a founding leader of the AFL, had testified before the Senate in 1883:

"There will be a sense of disappointment, of anger, of outrage in the African-American community," said John Mack, president of the Urban League and a prominent black leader here.