1.   Demeke was arraigned at a New York court last night but German prosecutors said they may ask for him to be extradited.

2.   German prosecutors earlier said they may ask for his extradition.

3.   America Online Inc. said it is part of a broadening probe by German prosecutors into hate material on the Internet, joining CompuServe Inc. and a European on-line service.

4.   Attorney Plato Cacheris says Lopez needs to defend himself against criminal charges that German prosecutors are expected to file by the end of the year.

5.   Both GM and German prosecutors say they have turned up strong evidence that Lopez and several colleagues did indeed take thousands of GM documents to Volkswagen.

6.   After the investigation, German prosecutors concluded that they did not have enough evidence to charge him with espionage.

7.   But Heidi Stirrup, director of government relations for the Christian Coalition, defended the German prosecutors.

8.   But German prosecutors believed the evidence in the report insufficient to bring charges against him.

9.   But Stone is dead, and Schevitz said the German prosecutors have discounted his story, and no American has come forward to vouch for him.

10.   Deutsche Telekom AG, which operates T-Online, a European service, last week blocked access to a site after receiving similar warnings from German prosecutors.