Aides to President Bush and President Jiang Zemin exchanged drafts of a proposed letter from the United States to China.
Mr. Bush will see the first full draft of a proposed convention speech that Mr. Gerson has spent much of the last month preparing.
The first draft of a proposed "charter of fundamental rights" for EU citizens, expected for the Feira summit, will not be ready on time.
The countdown is taking longer than expected, with representatives of both parties reviewing and critiquing drafts of a proposed agreement between Nassau County and a group called Nassau Heritage, which would operate the museum.
A draft of a proposed final communique from the meeting, prepared by foreign ministers before the meeting opened, suggested that the conference "invite" its member states to reduce their contacts with Israel.
It is one of his drafts of a proposed Constitution for Virginia, an influence on his composition of the Declaration of Independence; it is not an early draft of the Declaration.
The second draft of a proposed new law on national security, which was published on May 6th, specifies the state's responsibility for guaranteeing "grain security", a term that Chinese officials often associate with self-sufficiency.
Russia's culture minister, speaking after reading a draft of a proposed British law to confer immunity on some contested works of art, expressed optimism that an exhibition of 120 French and Russian paintings lent by four Russian museums would proceed as planned next month in London, Agence France-Presse reported.
According to the indictment, Mr. Halderman waited outside Mr. Letterman's Manhattan home before sunrise on Sept. 9, then gave Mr. Letterman's limousine driver a one-page draft of a proposed screenplay about the talk show host's love life.
