81.   New regulations to protect the rights of defendants and suspects went into effect in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, a move hailed by lawyers as breakthrough in the secretive kingdom.

82.   None of the arrested suspects had lawyers as of Wednesday afternoon.

83.   President B.J. Habibie on Friday named a career lawyer as acting attorney general, replacing a Cabinet minister whose appointment to the caretaker post had generated sharp criticism.

84.   President Clinton appointed on Thursday a New York lawyer as his envoy seeking a settlement to the two-decades-old NATO dispute over Cyprus.

85.   Pressured by the attention given to the case, the government took the unusual step of hiring its own top criminal lawyer as prosecutor.

86.   Rudin, who did not testify, stood expressionless with her three lawyers as the jury foreman read the verdict.

87.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a top U.S. Defense Department lawyer as chief prosecutor for the U.N.-Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal.

88.   Stomel said Caruso told him that Milan was considering naming another lawyer as public defender.

89.   The agency quoted the lawyers as saying their clients are members of a Tunisian opposition group.

90.   The detainees in Guantanamo were not allowed lawyers as officers from several U.S. civilian and military agencies questioned them, Lehnert said Wednesday.