Mr. Powell said by telephone from his Albany office.

Mr. Cooper did not return messages left for him at the institute's Albany office today.

He estimated that he has about 3,000 tapes in his Albany office and another 2,000 at home in the Bronx.

Our Albany office maintains a 24-hour-a-day help line at (800) 228-8201.

"I'll lay it out chapter and verse at a press conference tomorrow," Mr. Green said from his Albany office yesterday.

At 72, he remains an energetic man, whose passion for sports is evident in his Albany offices, which are filled with golf memorabilia.

Peter, a State Appellate Division court clerk, had not reported to his Albany office for work that morning.

If they do, they are patched directly to the legislators' Albany offices.

In his Albany office, a bumper sticker that reads, "What part of Marine do you not understand?"

"There is an investigation," said the voice who answered the phone, "and we have to go through the Albany office."