1.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told Pitman that he would contact prison officials and try to get Hage access to a phone.

2.   Attempts to contact DMR officials were unsuccessful.

3.   Attempts to contact officials from the fundraising groups or charitable organizations were unsuccessful Thursday.

4.   A State Department spokesman said the Department is trying to contact officials in Beijing but cannot confirm the report.

5.   A top aide had contacted church officials about a week earlier and had told them they were eligible for the money.

6.   After contacting Bush officials, he changed his mind, saying the campaign was not interested.

7.   Brown, at the request of Zobel, contacted officials at Lawyers Weekly, a legal publication that operates a World Wide Web site.

8.   But it provides no practical guidelines for the obligation of superiors to report these crimes, and it does not address whether civil law enforcement officials should be contacted.

9.   But Schlaefer said his two-person consular staff in Matamoros does not have time to drive to either city and contact the officials in person.

10.   Each manager would visit one or two cities, contact local officials and gather financial information.