31.   Like the other six Marines at the embassy that day, he declined through a military spokeswoman to be interviewed for this article.

32.   Lott declined through a spokeswoman to comment.

33.   Lott declined through a spokeswoman to comment further.

34.   McLarty, a close friend of Clinton since they attended kindergarten together in Hope, Ark., declined through a spokesman to comment on the matter.

35.   McHale declined through a spokeswoman Thursday to further discuss the incident.

36.   Middlesex Thomas F. Reilly Friday declined through a spokesman to discuss legal strategies, except to note that the prosecution of Violet Amirault is forever ended.

37.   Martin Raab, the president and chief executive of the Construction Authority, declined through a spokeswoman Monday to answer any questions about the process.

38.   Most of those sales were completed, and that should keep housing starts declining through the latter part of the year, economists said.

39.   Neither Mottola nor Ienner has commented publicly on the case and declined through a spokesman to be interviewed.

40.   Nunn is out of the country and declined through his office to comment.