Quartermaster Bragg refused to endorse the request, but Commander Bragg resubmitted it with additional information.
Mr. Erdogan endorsed the request, concluding that the American relationship was too valuable to spurn.
When Quartermaster Bragg still refused to endorse the request, Commander Bragg finally sent all of the correspondence to his superior.
Senators Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, endorsed the request.
But with some members expressing concern that the drug might be overprescribed, the committee did not endorse the request by the drug's manufacturer, Cephalon, that it be approved for all sleep disorders.
Greene endorsed the request and forwarded it to brigade headquarters for final approval with a brutally honest note on the back, a damning indictment of Oliver's value to the regiment: "I can spare Lieut.
BERLIN — General Motors received a setback Tuesday in its effort to secure €1.1 billion in German aid for its money-losing Opel unit after a government panel declined to endorse the request.
While the new strategy will call for expanding Afghan security forces more rapidly, it will not explicitly endorse the request from American commanders to increase the national police and army to 400,000.
Spokesmen for the Israeli military's Civil Administration Office said Israeli government policy now is to reject virtually all travel applications from Palestinians, even when there is no indication that applicants pose a security risk, unless high-level Israeli officials specifically endorse the request.
Last week, the equivalent spending panel in the Senate also endorsed the full request for OSTP.
