Mr. Dole, despite his earlier speech before the convention, refused to meet with Arab-American leaders when he was the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 1996.

Arab-American leaders estimate that there are 2.5 million Arab-Americans, 150,000 of them Palestinian.

A number of the Arab-American leaders believe their troubles have been exacerbated in the last few weeks by radio disk jockeys.

Arab-American leaders here express reservations about the trial, which is expected to last as long as two months.

Civil rights advocates and Arab-American leaders denounced the survey as a form of racial profiling.

Arab-American leaders estimate that the country has 2,000 mosques.

And Arab-American leaders have been invited to the White House to meet with the President three times.

Arab-American leaders said Mr. Porter's death was not a racial matter.

Agents in big cities called on Arab-American leaders with a message and a request.

ADC's intern program for undergraduate, graduate and law students trains Arab-American leaders.