Other correspondents filed their stories immediately.

And the correspondents did not file the stories.

The Wall Street Journal editor said that a correspondent had filed "a very long story" several weeks ago, including material about Mr. Hoover and CBS's coverage in Afghanistan.

Pentagon officials said later that correspondents in the field would still file reports, but they would be subject to military censorship.

With laptop computers and cell phones, a correspondent can go afield with a lone camera person, file a story, and consult on the editing with someone in London or New York.

The Times's correspondent there, Daniel Brigham, understood the message and filed a story about Laval's arrest.

Our chief political correspondent, Jacob Weisberg, is filing daily dispatches from Washington until further notice.

In the early 1980's, foreign correspondents went to a newly reopened China, filed reports for a year or two and left with tales to tell that didn't fit easily into column inches.

More than one correspondent filed a story describing the spectacle of a Cruise missile travelling up a Baghdad street at hotel window level.

And French radio did not send correspondents to file dispatches from the trials of Lyle and Erik Mendendez for their parents' murder; it has in the Simpson case.