"Clear Channel Communications Inc. hopes to defuse a dispute over a Times Square antiwar billboard picturing a lighted bomb by finding it another spot, a lawyer for the media giant said on Tuesday. ... After the hearing, Project Billboard official Deborah Rappaport told reporters the group was prepared to accept a comparable location but still wanted to use the bomb image. She said the suggestion of replacing the bomb with the dove was "a last ditch effort" to avoid litigation and to meet what they thought was a deadline for copy and art. "We are convinced we will be able to get our message out on Times Square," she said.

""Those of us who have been in New York for a while understand the sensitivity many New Yorkers have to bombs," he said, referring to the explosive attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.