1.   At recent briefing, Gorton was asked when he last talked to Babbitt about the Elwha.

2.   Capt. Mike Doubleday of the Navy, a Pentagon spokesman, said at a recent briefing that he did not know how many there were.

3.   He gave a recent briefing on the work to Rotarians from Palm Beach.

4.   In a series of recent briefings attended by Pentagon, CIA, and State Department officials, Mylroie has laid out her theory of the case.

5.   In one recent briefing, reporters asked the House leader if moderate Republicans were satisfied with his plans for handling the minimum wage issue.

6.   In the middle of a recent briefing at the CIA on the drug war, Anthony Lake was shown an aerial photograph of a cultivated field.

7.   Just as troubling to House Democrats was a recent briefing by Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster.

8.   Several other top editors have also been fired or re-assigned to lesser jobs at the parent newspaper, Southern Daily, officials said at recent briefings.

9.   The recent NATO briefing contends that allied efforts to indentify friendly forces have a solid foundation in technologies already being pursued by the United States and others.

10.   At a recent Pentagon briefing, England said a combination of sites are used to train Marines and Navy units on the West Coast.