1.   Alan Davidson, staff counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, and a staunch critic of encryption controls, agreed that the new plan is good news.

2.   Breyer played a leading role in drafting those guidelines both as a Senate staff counsel and later as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

3.   But Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that Internet access providers that go along with the Wiesenthal Center plan are asking for trouble.

4.   He then went to Washington and became a staff counsel to the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee.

5.   James Guy, staff counsel for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said he believes officials will be able to redraft the proposal to satisfy the committee.

6.   Nancy Murray, a Fish and Game staff counsel who is overseeing financial disputes with Portola, could not be reached for comment.

7.   Republican and Democratic staff counsels, who have generally worked in concert on the hearings, said they joined in asking Starr to turn over the Foster satchel.