101.   The spokesman said Specter and his colleagues on the committee would review the issues before deciding whether public hearings were appropriate.

102.   Pentagon spokesman Michael Doubleday also said Clinton was still reviewing the issue.

103.   Reviewing issues in Sri Lanka, the committee expressed its concern about widespread abuses of child labour as well as child prostitution rackets.

104.   Talks on the subject have repeatedly collapsed and when the issue was last reviewed in October last year the two sides seemed as far apart as ever.

105.   The economic summit will review the issue when it meets again next year, the text said.