"One day I got this call from him," Ms. Temple said.

Ms. Temple drove him to the hospital and there finally persuaded him to give her the telephone number of his brother.

The questioning continued for more than two hours, according to lawyers who were there, and Ms. Temple declined to answer almost all questions.

In the meantime, Ms. Temple continues to go to the office every day.

Ms. Temple, who is married and has an infant son, continues to practice law in Chicago.

Now, because of the war, Ms. Temple is collecting those cards again.

As the lawyer on whose watch the document destruction occurred, Ms. Temple had the most explaining to do.

Why, the committee wanted to know, did Ms. Temple wait so long?

"They turned their profitability around with cost-cutting," Ms. Temple said.

"She ran up to me," Ms. Temple, now a detective, said.