51.   Deputy Chief Thomas P. Fahey, a department spokesman, denied those claims, arguing that it did not make sense for officers to ignore blatant drug use.

52.   Department spokesman Carl Stern said the probe is starting as a civil matter, trying to determine whether individual incidents amount to a pattern of abusive misconduct against minorities.

53.   Department spokesman Howard Schloss said he was unaware of any U.S. involvement.

54.   Department spokesman Lee Jones said similarly negotiated rates could be announced this year.

55.   Department spokesman Stu Nagurka said the new policy is that all visitors from sensitive countries will be cleared by the FBI and CIA as not being identified with espionage.

56.   Donald Stewart, a police department spokesman, said the incident was being investigated as an attempted suicide.

57.   Espy insists he did nothing wrong, and official department spokesmen insist that no corners were cut to help out the chicken-loving friends of the president.

58.   Flateau, the correction department spokesman, said board certification was not necessary.

59.   For example, within days the Department of Public Safety will provide written procedures to deal with threats to agencies, department spokesman Tom Vinger said.

60.   Frederick Jones, a department spokesman, said no decision had yet been made about what decontamination process to use.