41.   The district director is transferred to Washington, where he gets a raise.

42.   The deportations began this summer, shortly after Bart Szafnicki, an INS assistant district director, read about three teenagers killed by an alleged drunken driver.

43.   The groups have named the agency, Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Seattle district director for the agency, Robert Coleman, as defendants.

44.   The INS district director blamed staff shortages but said the process will eventually speed up.

45.   They could be the result of a coding problem, said H. Joan Ehrlich, district director of the commission in Houston.

46.   When the inquiry was over, the prosecutor handling it praised Carroll, the district director, for his role in bringing the corrupt employees to justice.

47.   Willie Anderson, the acting deputy district director of the INS, said Samadi is in no way a victim of politics.

48.   With inquiry of the incident pending, the immigration service promoted Moschorak to district director.

49.   Bob Okin, deputy district director at the INS office in Seattle, said his agency is moving forward on the visa requests.

50.   But Reuben Daniels, district director of the EEOC in Charlotte, N.C., said an investigation could be warranted later if a complaint is filed.