"I don't remember that conversation," Mr. Gonzales said in the NBC interview.

His response in the NBC interview suggested a more moderate view, one many people who advocate abortion rights believe Mr. Bush still harbors privately.

During his NBC interview, Artest said of his suspension, "I don't think it was fair, that many games," and the fans here apparently agree.

But he did say that he had made deals "in other venues" that would not have been affected by the NBC interview.

"I certainly hope that if we win that this is not the end of this run," Reinsdorf said in an NBC interview.

The NBC interview had been aired as part of a current-affairs documentary following the six-o'clock news the previous evening.

President Bush ran into the dangerous intersection of the personal and the political in an NBC interview broadcast Tuesday night.

Kurt Busch was near tears during an NBC interview before the race.

The Israeli threat to curtail NBC interviews with Government officials was almost ingenuous.

Mr. Polreis, an executive at a local meat-packing plant, said in the NBC interview that he had been "denying" the boy's behavioral problems.