1.   As a result, Jasper police summoned the FBI to investigate the slaying as a possible hate crime, which could be punishable by the death penalty.

2.   Authorities declined publicly to classify either slaying as a hate crime.

3.   Giuliani, who prosecuted organized crime figures while he was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has characterized the slaying as an execution.

4.   Instead, in the days after the slaying, government newspapers gave prominent display to statements by Iranian and Lebanese leaders who portrayed the slaying as divine justice.

5.   Itamar Rabinovich, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, said he was not surprised that Libya and Iran celebrated the slaying as a victory for Islam.

6.   Like the court, the report described the slaying as a national loss of innocence, and it urged further soul-searching, especially in the educational system.

7.   Some Cambodians in Los Angeles interpret the slaying as the Khmer Rouge taking revenge.

8.   Leftists suspected that right wing military officers were behind the slaying as part of a plot to undermine the fledgling government of then-President Corazon Aquino.

9.   Several parliamentarians suggested last week that Yeltsin used the Listyev slaying as a pretext to get rid of Ponomarev.