The body adopted language urging more financial and technical support for the most vulnerable countries.
One is language urging the government to help people "make the most of their God-given potential".
Iraq and Syria, using different language, urged the Arab states to develop a long-term strategy that would approach Israel as a rival military and economic power.
Several crucial allies, like India, China and Pakistan, helped pass that resolution, which contained much weaker language urging the government to allow access to displaced people by aid groups.
Defenders of the Crusader, an $11 billion artillery system, won a small victory today as the House Appropriations Committee approved nonbinding language urging the Pentagon to delay plans to kill the program.
The advice was based on the fact that none contained what courts had called "the magic words" that defined a campaign advertisement, such as language urging viewers to "vote for" or "vote against" a specific candidate.
But in a 1997 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Orrin Hatch, Ms. Reno tolerantly embraced the White House claim that by having the Democratic Party write the checks, and by omitting language urging the election or defeat of a candidate, it had transformed the campaign ads into issue ads not chargeable to the Presidential spending limit.
But two weeks ago the House Appropriations Committee approved nonbinding language urging the Pentagon to delay plans to kill the program, and three senior Republican lawmakers from Oklahoma, where the Crusader would be built and based, have said they will work to persuade a majority in Congress to preserve it.
The emerging debate -- evident in an array of new reports, conferences and commentaries -- is still in the early stages, but some of the language urging the Bush administration to be more aggressive during its final 17 months is reminiscent of arguments from think tanks and commentators that shaped the case for invading Iraq.
Many used similar language urging that the programs end.
