51.   Mitchell Brater, the vice chairman of Towers, and Michael Rosoff, the former general counsel, were indicted last Thursday by a federal grand jury.

52.   Ms. Hanson was recommended for her administration job by Robert H. Mundheim, a former Treasury general counsel and former co-chairman of the Fried, Frank law firm.

53.   Olson, an assistant attorney gen- eral in the Reagan administration, is a friend of the former independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

54.   Others included the White House counsel, Jack Quinn, and former counsels Bernard W. Nussbaum, Lloyd N. Cutler and Abner J. Mikva.

55.   Plenty, said former independent counsel Morrison, who said the public would be no happier with leaving administrations to investigate themselves.

56.   Policy compared the investigation of him to that of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel.

57.   Quinn, a former general counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration, said he believed that an indictment would hurt future air safety investigations.

58.   Richard Gilberg, a former general counsel to the Teamsters, said not enough unions had adopted serious anticorruption measures.

59.   Richard Cooper, an attorney for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and a former FDA counsel, told the court that FDA is taking a first step toward banning tobacco.

60.   Scott Early, former general counsel to the Chicago Commodity Exchange, called the civil settlement good news for Archer Daniels.