Mr. Bush's five-hour visit to New York was intended to portray the president as comforter of the grieving and a steward of the nation's finances.

But after a five-hour long visit he said he was satisfied with what he'd seen.

A huge security operation was mounted throughout the province for the five-hour visit, especially around Hillsborough Castle in County Down, where she carried out all her engagements.

The tight script of the five-hour visit to Beirut highlighted the tension.

Mr. Bush, on a five-hour visit, promised support to the Ecuadorean Government, beleaguered after a series of earthquakes devastated the country's oil-producing eastern region on March 5.

Members of the United Nations Security Council, who recently dispatched a multinational force to bring order to this embattled town, paid a five-hour visit today.

Daniel Vitow, the high school's principal, said the five-hour visit was evidence of Princeton's interest in his students.

Taking the adult price, and figuring on a five-hour visit, the tab comes to less than 40 cents per thrill.

The measures taken by the State Department and American Embassy here to provide protection for Ms. Rice's five-hour visit to Kabul showed just how tenuous security has become, even in the capital.

Payload Is Classified The five-hour visit, the first by a Soviet delegation, is one of a number of stops at American military sites.