The paper reports that GOP state legislators will deliver letters personally pledging support to Bush, as they were instructed to do by veteran strategists.

In a meeting at the White House, Russia's Foreign Minister, Andrei V. Kozyrev, presented Mr. Clinton with a letter pledging Mr. Yeltsin's "firm decision" to avoid bloodshed in the crisis.

Suspicions were raised last weekend that the Iraqis somehow learned of the imminence of the attack, whereupon they sent a letter pledging to allow arms inspectors to begin work once again.

David Cameron has written a public letter pledging to open up government data.

Mr. Rumsfeld saluted the leaders of Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, who wrote a letter pledging their commitment to disarming Iraq.

Aides to Mr. Dinkins had worried about whether the Watsons would place garbage cans between the proposed fence and the wall of their building, and the officials asked Wednesday for a letter pledging that the couple would not.

He did issue an open letter pledging that, if elected, he would recuse himself from any decisions that could affect ATI's profits.

Mr. Bush has said he will veto any larger increase, and Mrs. Dole gave the President a letter from her husband, Senator Bob Dole, the Republican leader, and 34 other Republican Senators pledging to sustain any veto.

This evening, the former actress, Jayalalitha Jayaram, a powerful politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, failed to produce letters pledging a bloc of 24 parliamentary seats to the nationalists.