1.  Donegal Fine Gael TD Dinny McGinley is understood to have written to the Attorney General raising the case.

2.  A senior White House official said Clinton raised the cases of specific dissidents who are imprisoned in China and that Jiang was unyielding.

3.  A visiting congressman, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., also raised the case during a visit to Beijing in January.

4.  But he said tonight that their cases were raised during a meeting of foreign ministers.

5.  Ickes said the president raised the case with him.

6.  It is unclear whether President Bill Clinton raised the Pope case during his visit to Moscow earlier this month.

7.  Lukashenko returned the favor by saying that Yeltsin had violated an understanding that the case not be raised publicly and cast the Russian president as a doddering old man.

8.  Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto also raised the case at a Cabinet meeting Friday and called for cooperation among all national and local government agencies to find the killer.

9.  Putin raised the case of a former Kremlin aide now under arrest in New York for money laundering, according to Russian officials.