31.   Despite the lack of physical evidence, prosecutors say they are convinced Bittner was killed at the wall based on reports filed before the secret police entered the case.

32.   He faces a total of six defamation suits, including one filed before the elections in an unrelated matter.

33.   He, along with Magnuson, was hired by Republican legislative leaders to represent the Legislature in filing briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court on the presidential recount.

34.   In dispute is whether a flight plan was filed before Donaldson set out from Iquitos to Islandia, a Peruvian jungle town.

35.   In Windhoek, Buck said a flight plan for the German plane had been filed before takeoff from Germany.

36.   Leeson went last week after the magnitude of his losses became known, but before the bank filed its police complaint, the fraud squad statement said.

37.   Maj. Gen. Gerhard Buck of the German military said the flight plan had been filed before takeoff from Germany.

38.   No one in the church has an official tally of the number of lawsuits filed before this year.

39.   Prosecutors said agents were interviewing witnesses and that no charges would be filed before Thursday.

40.   Rifkin said the lawsuits would be filed before the next round of negotiations by the World Trade Organization starts in November.