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In internal debates, officials said, Mr. Biden has consistently expressed doubts about the public's appetite for an endless war.

A10 NATIONAL A14-23 CAreaigns Are Building Strong Teams for Debates The campaigns of President Bush and Senator John Kerry are putting forward perhaps the largest and most prestigious teams ever assembled to help set the rules and prepare for the presidential debates, officials say.

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Debate officials quashed the idea.

During the same debate, officials were considering the emerging prisoner-exchange proposal.

Requests for the delay had come from those on both sides of the debate, officials said.

But it was a way to get information into the debate". Officials at the American Enterprise Institute declined to comment yesterday.

With so much open debate, officials involved in the negotiations don't expect a document aimed at deep harmonization to be ready before the fall of 2004.

Another element of that debate, officials said, centered on how Dr. Albright should word her description of America's troubled encounters with Iran throughout the cold war.

While precise figures were still being debated, officials said they were leaning toward defining such attacks as those that caused less than $100 million in damages.

At the heart of the debate, officials said, is the question of whether Iraq would give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists to attack the United States.