The recommendation reflected the view within the Pentagon that the threat of a surprise Soviet attack is lessening.

In addition, he said, the recommendations reflect a bias toward drug treatment.

The official said the recommendations, which were submitted today, reflected the need to improve planning and strategy within the White House.

The panel's major recommendations, he said, "are not based on scientific evidence," but reflect "value judgments made by scientists with a particular point of view."

The recommendations reflected the consensus of an international coalition of experts.

The recommendation for a ban, however, did not accurately reflect the views of all members of the group.

Such recommendations, they said, reflect a change in the thinking of security experts within the Government.

His recommendations reflect what is by now a growing consensus of what is needed.

Their recommendation reflected a belief that little more could be learned from continuing studies and the larger ones might show that the vaccines worked.

The recommendations reflected what was considered standard at the time the care in the study was delivered, from 1996 to 2000.