READY TO GO

Even as the debate on Capitol Hill begins, Defense correspondent Mark Thompson reports, the Pentagon already plans to send as many as 2,000 American soldiers to Bosnia this week: "It's part of an enabling force that will set up shop near Tuzla, where the headquarters element of the U.S. sector will be." The military plan calls for an additional 18,000 American troops, mostly from the German-based 1st Armored Division, to supplement a NATO peacekeeping force of 40,000.

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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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