31.   New York City officials were not informed of the preliminary inquiry until days later.

32.   Preliminary inquiries have blamed that bombing on errors transmitting target coordinates from the ground to the air.

33.   Reno has until Friday to decide whether to approve a preliminary inquiry, a step she is expected to take.

34.   Reno has ordered a preliminary inquiry to determine if any fund-raising calls made by the president and vice president violated a federal law barring fund raising on federal property.

35.   Republicans said Reno had interpreted the independent counsel statute too narrowly by limiting her preliminary inquiry to fund-raising phone calls Clinton and Gore may have made from federal property.

36.   Reno also explained the opening of a preliminary inquiry into whether Gore violated a law restricting federal officials from using Government property to raise funds.

37.   Reno has ordered a preliminary inquiry to determine if an independent counsel should be requested.

38.   Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, meanwhile, called on Reno to skip the preliminary inquiry and immediately request an independent counsel.

39.   Seacrest told both the National Transportation and Safety Board investigators and the preliminary Navy inquiry that the presence of visitors had interfered with his task.

40.   Signs that insider traders may have been at work caught the attention of prosecutors, who opened a preliminary inquiry.