11.   At the opening session of the trial last week, defense lawyers demanded that presiding judge Hansgeorg Brautigam be disqualified because he had shown prejuidice against the defendants.

12.   At the AICI opening session, most skirts were neither long nor short but right around the knee.

13.   At the opening session on Monday morning, however, it was acknowledged that getting teen-agers and their parents to understand this is not always easy.

14.   Bishop Wilton Gregory, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, during the opening session of the conference, Thursday.

15.   A cardinal with his prayer book during the opening session of the meeting, Monday at the Vatican.

16.   After the opening session, Gore told a group of American reporters that he was confident that most disputes with the Vatican would be settled.

17.   But with the fate of the entire process dependent on the outcome of the Israeli election, the opening session was expected to be largely a formality.

18.   Christopher began the largely ceremonial opening session emphasizing the consequences of failure.

19.   Clinton, speaking at the opening session of a four-day White House Conference on Aging, did nothing to eliminate the Republican unease.

20.   Christopher, Netanyahu and Arafat did not attend the opening session of the negotiations, which was held at Erez on the Israeli-Gaza border.