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The army is due to grow from 80,000 to 134,000 by 2011, and some of the proposals speak of expanding it to 250,000.
The officials who outlined the draft proposal spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to upstage Tuesday's announcements in Washington and Phoenix by Mr. Glickman and Mike Dombeck, the Forest Service chief.
As is often the case, politicians were allowed to speak first, and Daniel J. Halloran III, a councilman and a Republican Congressional candidate from Queens who is circulating a petition in the City Council that opposes the mayor's proposal, spoke out against it, calling it a mayoral fiat.
Liberal Democrats mayoral candidate Brian Paddick said: "Ken Livingstone's proposal speaks of getting London councils to help fund it, but how many have agreed to do this?
Bush, Cheney, Rove et al can't and won't admit wrong, so this new proposal speaks volumes.
But according to executives with direct knowledge of the proposal, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, the developer would eventually build a mix of housing, shops and possibly office space just east of the stadium in Willets Point, a shambling, 62-acre district of junk yards and auto repair shops, possibly as late as 2025.
Mr. Powell began lobbying for the proposal by speaking today with the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, and the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer.
M.L.B. Advanced Media, the online company that runs the popular MLB.com Web site and is owned equally by all 30 teams, has received valuations of more than $1 billion and could sell a noncontrolling, minority stake, the people familiar with the proposal said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Chris Morris, the BBC's Europe correspondent, says the Commission's draft proposals speak of a determination to implement "a more swift return system" and to "ensure a humane and dignified treatment of returnees, and a proportionate use of coercive measures".
