1.   A federal judge had been considering for four years whether to hear a lawsuit filed against Texaco by Ecuadorean Indians who say the oil company polluted their lands.

2.   The Indians say the oil company polluted the forest and rivers during two decades of pumping oil in Ecuador.

3.   The Justice Department charged that the company polluted the water decades ago through an oil drilling technique known as waterflooding.

4.   The ad charges that the company has polluted a nearby river.

5.   The Indonesian government plans to protest to Germany that a German cosmetics company is polluting a lake outside Jakarta, a senior official said Thursday.