1.   Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage.

2.   Attorney General John Ashcroft said the information that prompted the alert was not strong enough to change the national alert status.

3.   A first hint came on Sunday that India might relax its alert status along the border.

4.   After increasing their alert status on Friday, NATO forces returned to normal by Tuesday.

5.   But the top U.S. warfighting commander, Navy Adm. Richard W. Mies, recently argued on Capitol Hill that shifting nuclear forces off alert status could actually be dangerous.

6.   Despite that rhetoric, Seoul downgraded its military alert status Saturday, because Northern ships have kept out of the disputed waters for four days.

7.   Despite the increased concerns, Fleischer said the White House had no plans to raise the color-coded terrorism alert status because intelligence on possible attacks was too vague.

8.   He outlined proposed steps for lowering the alert status.

9.   In addition to holding out the possibility of large unilateral cuts in nuclear arms, he said that most American nuclear weapons should be removed from hair-trigger alert status.

10.   In addition to holding out the possibility of large unilateral arms cuts, he said most American nuclear weapons should be removed from hair-trigger alert status.