1.   Gutierrez was treated to closed briefings by White House, Drug Enforcement Administration and intelligence officials, administration officials said.

2.   The panel will first hold a closed briefing to hear an assessment from CIA Director George Tenet.

3.   A group of relatives of the missing and the survivors as well as Japanese officials, meanwhile, emerged from a closed Coast Guard briefing looking stoic and drained.

4.   Albright spoke to reporters after a closed council briefing by Rolf Ekeus, the head of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq.

5.   But Perry huddled in closed briefings with generals and crossed much of the U.S.-patrolled northeastern sector without participating in Independence Day activities.

6.   He revealed the details to expedition members at a closed briefing Wednesday at their resort hotel.

7.   Thirty-four relatives of the missing, meanwhile, emerged from a closed Coast Guard briefing looking stoic and drained.

8.   Upon arriving in Dhahran, Perry received a closed briefing from FBI and other U.S. officials investigating the bombing Tuesday that ripped through the military housing complex.

9.   Upon arriving in Dhahran, Perry received a closed briefing from FBI and other U.S. officials investigating the bombing that ripped through a military housing complex Tuesday.