The Pentagon put about 50 Joint Staff members on polygraphs in a leak hunt. [1] The New York Times filed the tests on Sept. 4. [1] Monday has no new named round in fetched copy. A prior hunt is not a new wave. Print dormant. Do not print a second round.

A Wire brief is how the paper tells a reader the thread did not vanish. It is not a new accusation. Leave a named new round to the edition that owns a named new round. Silence from a spokesman is not a cleared staff. Print dormant. Print not a second wave.

Print dormant. Monday is not a second polygraph wave. Fifty Joint Staff tests remain a Sept. 4 file. Print dormant as Monday's named leak-hunt hold. A holiday desk is still not a new hunt. Print the file as still closed. Print dormant as still the only honest Monday word. Print the Times file as still the last named round.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington