Traders said a draft of some of the plan's key features had been circulating within the investment community for the last several weeks.

A draft of the editorial has circulated, and it's caused some consternation in the administration.

The report is to be issued today but a draft has already widely circulated in Washington, where Defense Department officials have attacked it.

By the middle of this week, drafts of several letters calling for change were circulating on the Web.

An eight-page draft circulated this week among the envoys, but many were reported on Friday to have found it overly long and cumbersome.

A third draft of a Security Council resolution is circulating among members, and administration officials said they hoped it would satisfy the Bangladeshis.

But many more drafts circulate for a while and are then abandoned.

The nearly final draft has been circulating in the Pentagon since April 16.

The legislation's prospects are far less certain in the House of Representatives, where drafts of a similar bill have been circulating for months.

An accident report should have been published within two years of the crash, but nothing has been released, despite rumours that a draft is circulating.