In an earlier deposition to the committee, Mr. Shields was also quoted describing a meeting in 1973 with Deputy Secretary of Defense William Clements.

The term ends with the election period, and there is no provision for an early deposition.

Moreover, in an earlier deposition in a suit between Nitec and a supplier, Mr. Edwards had denied any role in rigging the books.

But Mr. Seeger said that Dr. Morrison had changed his testimony since giving an earlier deposition.

He had denied the affair in earlier depositions.

His performance contrasted with the earlier deposition of Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, which was repeatedly shown during the long-tunning antitrust trial, which Microsoft lost.

She also did not want to acknowl- edge that she had admitted, in an earlier deposition, to having had the key to the church.

In an earlier deposition for a different case, she said she was never harassed.

Phyllis Tucker, a corrections officer at the prison that July day, described in an earlier deposition how another guard had shoved an inmate's face into a concrete wall.

An earlier deposition was taken on videotape because Ms. Lee is suffering from a terminal illness.