(New York Times) Michael R. Gordon and Steven Lee Myers - President Obama called a proposal by Russia on Monday to avert a U.S. military strike on Syria over chemical weapons use "a potentially positive development," but said he would continue to press for military action to keep the pressure up. "It is possible, if it is real," the president said of the Russian proposal that Syria put its stockpiles of chemical weapons under international supervision and eventually destroy them.
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