1.   Harkin himself was unavailable to discuss the dispute, she said.

2.   Harkin is a voice crying in the wilderness, and the wilderness is the gilded thicket of free trade, thorny with U.S. concessions.

3.   Harkin is under attack from Republican Representative Greg Ganske.

4.   Harkin was noncommittal, Panetta said.

5.   Harkin was in the audience Friday and got a friendly greeting from Bush.

6.   Harkin has been a vocal critic of the Senate impeachment rule that says Senate deliberations are to be conducted behind closed doors.

7.   Harkin was noncommittal, Panetta said in an interview on Tuesday.

8.   Moreover, Biden said, Harkin was confusing NATO expansion and foreign arms sales.

9.   With Iowa growing increasingly conservative, Harkin is the only Democrat who remains in its Congressional delegation.

10.   White House officials said that Harkin had been too busy to take Greenspan up on other offers to meet.