1.   As in his public advocacy, he hopes to advance germ defenses.

2.   A retired Army colonel, Monath was most likely the only scientist in the room who had deeply studied such problems for germ defense as enemy countermeasures.

3.   Acknowledging such threats, President Clinton announced a series of measures Friday to enhance germ defenses, including the stockpiling of antibiotics and vaccines.

4.   But an American biologist who works for the Defense Department on germ defenses said the finding was more surprising than that.

5.   Despite the setbacks, many experts continue to back vaccines as important for germ defense and even hold out the possibility of wide civilian immunizations.

6.   The White House directed the military to concentrate on germ defense, the mirror image of its previous work.