The embassy has confirmed at least trace amounts of anthrax in one of the five mailbags.

We look forward to knowing the results of that investigation. The United States has every intention of living up to the letter of our recent agreement in regard to beef imports into Japan and we will work closely with the appropriate authorities here in Japan and in the United States to ensure there is no repetition of this mistake.

There is still work to be done. I think they are getting close on many of the issues.

The whiter it is, the worse it is.

She sat there and shook and cried and kept saying, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you,'.

We've kind of kicked it down the road two or three days. That's all we're talking about.