1.   The decision came a year after Alabama revived chain gangs, a practice associated with earlier, harsher notions of prisoner treatment.

2.   Hastert said he and other congressional leaders discussed the prisoner treatment in a meeting with Bush.

3.   Hastert said he and other congressional leaders discussed the prisoner treatment in a meeting with President George w. Bush.

4.   The conditions during the November convoys are part of wider scrutiny into prisoner treatment that stretches from Afghanistan to the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

5.   Rumsfeld said he would grant the prisoners treatment largely corresponding to the Convention.

6.   The officials insisted the pause was not in response to the outpouring of concern over the prisoners treatment, but gave contradictory reasons for the action.