11.   -- The investigation by the United States Park Police into the death last year of Vincent W. Foster Jr., who was deputy White House counsel.

12.   A federal law requires the Justice Department to investigate the circumstances surrounding any mysterious deaths of a number of senior government officials, including the deputy White House counsel.

13.   A few days after their two-hour meeting, Foster, the deputy White House counsel, committed suicide.

14.   After learning of the incidents, Cuomo asked Mercedes Marquez, deputy general counsel for civil rights and fair housing at HUD, to personally handle the situation.

15.   But by the end of the day a Whitewater deputy counsel, Hickman Ewing Jr., had begun to try to rehabilitate his witness.

16.   But Joel Klein, the deputy White House counsel, who has long followed the Supreme Court, disputed that characterization.

17.   But Robin Bierstedt, the deputy general counsel of Time, said that, as described, the Publication Rights Clearinghouse was an untenable answer to copyright claims.

18.   But shutting down another avenue of inquiry, they said it was now unlikely that they would question Bruce Lindsey, a deputy White House counsel.

19.   City officials said his replacement is likely to be Anthony P. Coles, deputy counsel to the mayor.

20.   Clinton is seeking to block Starr from compelling testimony from Bruce Lindsey, a deputy White House counsel, and Sidney Blumenthal, a senior communications aide.