11.   Judges have rejected three indictment requests in the past year for Di Pietro.

12.   Lower court judges have rejected three indictment requests in the past year for Di Pietro.

13.   Lower court judges rejected three indictment requests in the past year for Di Pietro.

14.   Milan court offices were closed Saturday afternoon, and there was no indication when a judge would decide whether to order trial or throw out the indictment requests.

15.   Other officials in the prosecutors office said they could neither confirm nor deny the reports on the indictment requests.

16.   The indictment request comes during a debate in Parliament to limit the abuse of office provision in the penal code.

17.   The judge has not said when he would rule on the indictment requests.

18.   The others are creaking through the court system or in the limbo between arrest and an indictment request.

19.   The prosecutors suggested American planes might have been in the area, according to newpaper accounts of the indictment request.

20.   There was no indication when the court would decide on the indictment request.