11.   Civil contempt of Congress is punishable by jail and or fines unless the reluctant witness agrees to testify or provide documents.

12.   Democrats attempted to make Starr the issue, portraying the independent counsel as an overzealous prosecutor out to destroy the president, and reluctant witnesses, at any cost.

13.   He has been a reluctant witness against his former employer in recent years.

14.   In his autobiography, Dmytryk said he did not feel guilty about his reversal, unlike some other reluctant witnesses who eventually cooperated.

15.   Initially a reluctant witness in the Jones lawsuit, Ms. Willey repeated on the television program much of the story that she told in her January deposition.

16.   Indeed, for the defense witnesses, the prospect of a nationwide television audience could have the unsettling effect of making reluctant witnesses even more so.

17.   Ms. Hearst will be a reluctant witness against Ms. Olson when her trial begins, probably in the spring.

18.   Ms. Willey has said she was a reluctant witness in the Jones case.

19.   No one knows if the reluctant witnesses would say anything incriminating, even if they did testify.

20.   Once Ms. Hoster stepped forward, five other women followed, two of them reluctant witnesses testifying here under grants of immunity.