1.   Annan and Ritter did not comment publicly, but Butler briefed journalists on the meeting.

2.   A senior administration official, briefing journalists on background, took the rhetoric a notch higher.

3.   According to Russian officials who briefed journalists in Moscow, the Japanese fishing vessel disobeyed orders from a Russian patrol boat to stop for inspection.

4.   Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer will also brief journalists and take questions at a press conference.

5.   Earlier this week, they briefed journalists about their new detention facility, a large corrugated steel structure.

6.   After the three-hour meeting, Juwono briefed journalists together with Minister of Cooperatives Adi Sasono and Minister of Information Yunus Yosfiah.

7.   But South Korean Defense Ministry officials briefing local journalists said that North Korea again refused to recognize the U.N.-imposed border.

8.   Hoon was briefing journalists as Blair prepared to fly by Concorde to meet U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington.

9.   In the past, the President has always briefed journalists on the flight home from overseas visits.

10.   None of the officers could be quoted by name, and senior officers who earlier briefed journalists on condition of anonymity have been ordered not to speak.