21.   He is now in the witness protection program in Arizona.

22.   He said he was now in the federal witness protection program.

23.   He has been moved in the local equivalent of a federal witness relocation program.

24.   He has twice been sheltered in the federal witness protection program and had every incentive to incriminate Ms. Shabazz, his high school friend.

25.   He was placed in the witness protection program, which provides inmates with more comforts than other prisoners get and with new identities to protect them.

26.   He was reportedly placed in the federal witness protection program.

27.   He then surprised even his wife by announcing that he had lived another life, erased a year earlier by the federal witness protection program.

28.   He would have to go briefly to jail, but then he, his wife and daughters could join a witness protection program.

29.   His narrow, very un-Dukakis-like loss has not emboldened him but seemingly thrust him into the witness protection program.