Children of the parliamentarians who have fled with them play in the corridors while clusters of officials and women in shawls cluster around the tables, where they are served Pepsi and orange juice by the bemused crew in immaculate white uniforms.
The assailants were shot dead when they raced up the road and fired on a second cluster of troops, officials said.
The candidates were accompanied at the parade by a cluster of party officials: Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Gov. George E. Pataki and Senator John McCain of Arizona for Mr. Lazio, and, for Mrs. Clinton, City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, the Housing and Urban Development secretary, Andrew M. Cuomo, and the former vice presidential candidate Geraldine A. Ferraro.
"This is a mission," General Harris, 59, said on Monday, sitting in one of Tweed's conference rooms and gesturing toward the clusters of education officials holding intense discussions in every corner.
Before the convention ramped up Tuesday evening, Mr. Johnson, 61, was among a cluster of McCain campaign officials and supporters hovering outside a suite guarded by an aide.
The assailants were shot to death when they raced up the road and fired on a second cluster of troops, the officials said.
Whatever the circumstances of the selection process, some critics say that the results are flawed if they include a significant number of whites and a noticeable cluster of relatives of department officials.
The paper's problem, at least initially, he said, was extracting tightly held information from the relatively small cluster of high-level government officials with access to it.
In Madrid's Carabanchel neighborhood, a crowd protesting outside a basement apartment recently shouted "shame on you" to a cluster of bank and court officials who had come to evict Edward Hernández and his family.
