The president's request for $3 billion in 2006 fell short of the $5 billion originally pledged when the program was established.

He was originally pledged to Bob Kerrey, but switched to Bill Clinton after Kerrey bowed out of the 1992 Democratic Primary campaign on March 5, 1992.

The I.M.F. package included a $2.95 billion loan that runs through 1994 and $200 million originally pledged under a previous arrangement with the fund.

American officials said Mr. Lukashenko had originally pledged an all-out effort to find Mr. Gonchar.

President Clinton had originally pledged to allow homosexuals to serve openly, but backed away from the plan after a near revolt by Gen. Colin L. Powell and other members of the Joint Chiefs early in his presidency.

Members of the District's Delegation were originally pledged to Robert F. Kennedy.

Castilla had originally pledged his support for García Moreno's efforts to subdue Franco's regime.

But watchdog groups immediately denounced the measure as too watered-down to be effective, and the Governor himself - who had originally pledged to veto anything he considered too weak - said he was dissatisfied with it despite his decision to sign it.

Following the earthquake the previous year in Iran in Bam which killed 26,000 people, Iranian officials claimed to have received just USD 17.5 million of the USD 1 billion originally pledged.

Only 49 of the 136 projects that were originally pledged to improve Iraq's water and sanitation will be finished, with about 300 of an initial 425 projects to provide electricity, the report says.