Karl Rove, the Bush campaign strategist, asserted at a news conference that the facing-page design was not unusual.
"People are happy with the performance of the police," the deputy interior minister, Sami Sonmez, asserted at a parliamentary hearing last year.
He made headlines a few weeks ago when he asserted at a Hebrew University conference that a military attack on Iran would be "a stupid idea".
The candidates themselves engaged in one of their first direct exchanges over the weekend, with Mr. Romney asserting at a debate Saturday that Iran's progress toward developing a nuclear weapon represented Mr. Obama's "greatest failing".
Whether the Iranian government actually sought to hire Mexican gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asserted at a dramatic press conference last week, remains uncertain.
As President Obama forcefully asserted at a news conference later in the day, there can be no negotiations until the government is open and until Republicans raise the debt ceiling and end the possibility of default.
But on Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to assert at a hearing that it has the authority to regulate banks' debt collection practices under the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law.
Mr. Marks, an associate of the Center for National Security Studies, asserted at a news conference that Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, in a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, "seriously distorted" what the C.I.A. research programs involved.
But later, with an increase in violent attacks by Uighurs, the party changed course, asserting at a major meeting on the region in 2014 that the priorities were stability and unity rather than economic development and combating discrimination.
Earlier, Iraq's minister of information, Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, asserted at a news conference that coalition forces were attacking the Ali shrine and trying to make the gold-domed mosque collapse with the concussion of low-flying aircraft.
"The link is unassailable," Dr. Dean asserted at a news conference here on Wednesday, adding that Mr. Torricelli "raised money from the same donors" to support Mr. Kerry and the anti-Dean group.
