61.   Benedict did not return calls seeking comment Monday.

62.   Bender did not attend the afternoon conference, nor return calls seeking comment for a second day.

63.   Benton also could not be reached for comment, and his lawyers did not return calls seeking comment.

64.   Big Apple president Harold Greenberg did not return calls seeking comment.

65.   Before Mother Teresa died early last month, Robinson said he had unsuccessfully sought negative comments from the Roman Catholic Church assailing Hitchens.

66.   Biliardo Amaro Guerra, who prosecuted Mendoza, did not return telephone calls seeking comment on the case.

67.   Bill Gertz, a spokesman for the American Institute for Foreign Study, which coordinates au pair programs in the United States, did not return calls seeking comment.

68.   Bennett did not return a telephone call on Wednesday seeking comment.

69.   Bert Brandenburg, the justice department spokesman in Washington assigned to the case, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

70.   Blewster did not return calls seeking comment.