The concerns from lawmakers underscored the challenges facing the administration not only in Iraq, but also in maintaining support in Congress, allied capitals and among the American public for the difficult and dangerous postwar mission.

Another concern underscored in the August recess is health care, and here, too, many lawmakers say they feel hamstrung by scarce resources.

The concern underscores the discrimination that the Basarwa have often faced.

The concern over their use has underscored the Clinton Administration's insistence on minimizing the risk to American and NATO pilots, avoiding casualties at all cost.

Increased concern in communities, continued demand for services and increasing estimates of ASD prevalence underscore the need for a coordinated and strong response to improve the lives of people with ASDs.

But he was worried about the future, and his concern underscored the challenge facing the United States.

"The concerns about terror just underscore the picture of a European economy that is underperforming the rest of the world," said Holger Schmieding, an economist at Bank of America in London.

That concern underscores the importance of the other main issue on the meeting's agenda: global climate change and the need to find alternatives to polluting fossil fuels.

And recent concerns about using chemicals, harming the environment and posing unnecessary threats to the land have underscored the need for safer, simpler means of bringing pests under some sort of control.

Mr. Jaschik said Mr. Block's concerns only underscored the need to make public full disciplinary and crime information.