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More than 150 federal agents from the immigration agency and the United States Marshal's Service were involved in the sweep, officials said.

BRUSSELS — Embarking on what could be the biggest trade agreement ever in its economic sweep, officials from the United States and the European Union indicated Wednesday that they had already resolved some of the stickiest issues behind closed doors.

After a closed-door briefing last week, however, fear of an outbreak swept official Washington, which was still reeling from the poor response to Hurricane Katrina.

As concern about a flu pandemic sweeps official Washington, Congress and the Bush administration are considering spending billions to buy the influenza drug Tamiflu.

[C1.] U.S. Faces a Wait in Obtaining Flu Drug As concern about a flu pandemic sweeps official Washington, Congress and the Bush administration are considering spending billions to buy the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.

The three-day effort will be the last big sweep before officials in Tokyo shift their focus to a daunting national reconstruction effort.

Masked police arrested 20 people in raids on political party offices and private homes today in a sweep that officials said had crippled the fund-raising wing of the armed Basque separatist group E.T.A.

Twenty-one sexually exploited children have been saved from the streets, and 389 people arrested on charges of trafficking children for prostitution, in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation calls the largest such multistate sweep ever, officials said Wednesday.

A8 NATIONAL A9-12 FederAgentsnts Arresting Fathers Who Owe Support Federal agents in 29 states have arrested dozens of fathers who owe millions of dollars of child support, in a nationwide sweep that officials describe as a significant expansion of the federal role.

He swept out officials favoured by his two predecessors and appointed new officials to posts in finance and rural administration in order to increase government efficiency.

Despite the high death toll, American soldiers have met surprisingly little overall resistance during the sweep, and military officials suspect that insurgents were tipped off beforehand.