1.   The defense called its first witness to the stand.

2.   The prosecution called their first witness.

3.   Where the local authority is the applicant in the proceedings difficulties may be avoided by calling the social worker as first witness.

4.   And he insisted that Flemmi should be called as the first witness at the hearings.

5.   As a sanction, Ito allowed the prosecution an unprecedented opportunity to add to their opening statements before calling the first witnesses.

6.   As the first witnesses began to testify, the hearing dissolved into a series of objections by Democrats into the line of questioning and available documents.

7.   At his request, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers will be the first witness.

8.   A prosecutor confirmed that it plans to call as its first witness Tuesday a secret informant who once worked closely with bin Laden.

9.   After all, the first witness in the Watergate hearings, Robert C. Odle Jr., a Nixon re-election committee official, was hardly memorable.

10.   After opening statements conclude today, FBI Special Agent John Steubing will be the first witness.