1.   At the time, she faced the prospect of testifying in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit against Clinton.

2.   A few days before the conversation, both Mrs. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky had received subpoenas in the sexual misconduct lawsuit filed against the president by Paula Corbin Jones.

3.   But Ms. Steele later disavowed that account and gave an affidavit in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit denying that Ms. Willey had ever told her of the incident.

4.   But Ms. Steele then recanted that account and gave an affidavit in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit denying that Ms. Willey had ever told her of the incident.

5.   Carter helped Lewinsky draw up an affidavit for the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit against Clinton, in which Lewinsky denied having had an affair with Clinton.

6.   Clinton and his lawyers have based their arguments that he did not commit perjury on a narrow definition of sexual relations used in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit.

7.   Conyers also questioned whether Starr had shared legally protected information with lawyers for Paula Corbin Jones in her sexual misconduct lawsuit against the president.

8.   He also insisted that he had not lied in his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit, the lawyers said.

9.   In a sworn affidavit given in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit against the president, Ms. Lewinsky said she had not had a sexual relationship with Clinton.

10.   Lawyers for Mrs. Jones and Clinton were close earlier this month to settling her sexual misconduct lawsuit against him.