He then put on his jacket, walked out of the studio and declined to answer any questions of reporters assembled outside.

Four employees were stationed in front of the courthouse downtown to hawk papers - for 50 cents each - to a swarm of reporters and spectators assembled there.

"When you criticize the president, you are thrown off the air," Mr. Stern told his national audience, along with reporters assembled in his New York studio.

His remarks were met with peals of laughter from Polish and other reporters assembled for the news conference.

Prison officials declined to give further details, saying that, in response to questions from reporters assembled here, Mr. Grasso had said, "It is irrelevant."

In the conference room I again sat under an arc of dazzling lights, facing the impersonal eyes of the TV cameras and talking with the reporters assembled there.

"Today's economic statistics confirm what the American people have been trying to tell the President for some time now," he told reporters assembled on the lawn of the governor's mansion.

"We are talking about pretty far out," he explained evenly to reporters assembled at the Plaza Hotel.

White House officials assured a roomful of reporters assembled to watch the latest video release that the tapes contain nothing incriminating.

Today, with reporters assembled inside a trailer, the principal owner of the Yankees spoke for more than an hour in his usual state-of-the-team address.