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At the military?s weekly press briefing, Gen. Lynch reminded reporters of the progress being made. The artfully persuasive general repeatedly insisted that 75% of the Iraqi troops and police required to hold the country together were now in place. Where there were 100,000 security personnel a year ago...
But the State Department so far has had mixed success convincing influential outside observers on the merits of the deal. After receiving a briefing on the pact by State Department officials last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn-an influential Democrat on defense issues who now co-chairs the Nuclear Threat...
Allen?s lawyer told reporters that it was a misunderstanding on the part of Target officials, and that the investigation had nothing to do with his client?s departure from government. White House officials learned about the arrest Friday night from news accounts, and Bush was asked about it Saturday...
Intelligence of this kind helped secure the backing of Russia and China in last month's IAEA vote to refer Iran to the Security Council. Western officials hope the new briefing will win council support for further action; most of them see no viable alternative to U.N. efforts to try...
"We are fully prepared." U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, in video footage recorded the day before Hurricane Katrina hit and released last week, after a briefing of state and federal officials in which Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, warned of Katrina's disaster potential