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The direction of things has lawmakers on both sides of the congressional aisle clamoring for a deadline to U.S. involvement, which Defense Department officials today said would run at least through December. Democrats are drafting legislation to authorize the military action till February or March, and Republicans are poised to call tomorrow for an immediate debate on the scope of Operation Uphold Democracy.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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