To this day, neither the completion date, December 2004, nor the official assertion that the construction is "83 percent complete" is certain.

They said in interviews that many small fires they saw dotting the mountains they bombed made them doubt official assertions that their mission was to attack unhabitated areas.

Notably, the pension agency recently stopped making official assertions that it had enough money to pay retirees all their benefits "for the foreseeable future."

Human rights activists on April 12 challenged the official assertion that the victims had been killed by "criminals".

He repeated official assertions that no evidence has been found linking the Pan Am bombing with terrorism suspects in West Germany.

At the White House, President Clinton's spokesman, Joe Lockhart, repeated official assertions that there was no proof of Chinese espionage under the Clinton Administration.

Over the next few days, Eran said, they expected hundreds of vedeks to travel to the Assembly hall, to collaborate on an official assertion of denouncement.

Despite official American assertions that Iraqi morale was sinking, the refugees said spirits remained high and anger against the United States nearly universal.

Yet for all the sloppy internal contradictions, the most incriminating indictment of the new White House disinformation campaign is to be found in official assertions made more than a year ago.

But that the more than 2,800 bodies found in and around Hue after Tet were victims of Communist executions is supported only by official assertions.