1.   A senior cult member was seized Thursday and charged with blackmailing a businessman.

2.   A senior cult member who is still at large is believed to possess some remaining VX gas.

3.   A senior cult member was seized Thursday, charged with blackmailing a businessman.

4.   Another senior cult member, Tomomasa Nakagawa, already has admitted to the Matsumoto attack and implicated Asahara.

5.   But he added that Fujinaga has shown contrition and acted on step-by-step orders from Asahara, to whom senior cult members were wholly devoted.

6.   Forty-one senior cult members, including Asahara, are suspected of manufacturing the gas, planning or carrying out the subway attack.

7.   Forty-one senior cult members, including Asahara, are suspected of manufacturing sarin, planning the attack and carrying it out.

8.   Hayakawa was the fifth senior cult leader arrested.

9.   However, other senior cult members have admitted involvement and have told police of other crimes allegedly committed by the cult, including more nerve gas attacks.

10.   Koshikawa said the murder had been ordered by senior cult member Hideo Murai, who was stabbed to death this spring in Tokyo.