Mr. Mundie was on the five-member steering board for the report.
Several people on the 12-member steering committee said debate became heated almost immediately as a split developed between its more-traditional and less-traditional documentarians.
The group, a 150-member steering committee that includes an advisory board studded with celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Diana Ross, was formed more than a year ago.
The program is overseen by an 11-member steering committee that includes a prison psychologist, a criminologist, substance abuse experts and nurses, Ms. Adams said.
The academic representatives on the 24-member steering committee include food experts from the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds, Dundee, Aberystwyth and Harper Adams, among others.
But three organizers with Hirak said its 70-member steering committee, which meets in the headquarters of an Amman labor union, was leaning toward an embrace of Prince Hamzah, too.
Hours before a 10-member steering committee of officials from the Port Authority, the development corporation and the mayor's and governor's offices was to meet to choose a winner, the decision was already sealed.
The report's authors are former members of the Clinton administration and are now informally advising Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign, while the leaders of the task force's 19-member steering committee are two prominent Republican businessmen.
Despite fierce debates over the statement's wording, which caused the meeting to drag on a day longer than planned, the communiqué was unanimously approved by the 54 members of the opposition group's 65-member steering committee who were present.
The main features are ministerial meetings every 18 months, a 15-member steering committee and a joint UN-OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) secretariat, rather than one provided by the OECD.
