The secret briefing reportedly asserts that it would be possible to start deployment by 1993 to provide a partial defense of the United States.

The information, along with sanitized but still secret summaries, was described in secret briefings for a few top lawmakers, officials said.

Mr. Dingell also asked for copies of all correspondence in the dispute and a secret briefing on its status.

He has been criticized by the Clinton Administration for his secret briefings to Congress on Russian and Chinese aid to Iran.

Their codes of ethics or statements may proscribe anthropologists from giving secret briefings.

"I've been in secret briefings; you have not," he told Mr. Shaw at a candidate forum in Coral Springs.

Reading the secret briefing Rheinhardt had had prepared, he had realized just how near the brink they were.

The uncertainties about what kind of laser was actually at Sary Shagan was apparently acknowledged by the intelligence experts in secret briefings.

Laxalt was in the Capitol, at a secret briefing by Shultz, Habib and Armacost.

But there was solace at least in believing that Congressional oversight committees were exercising vigilance in secret briefings.