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] Tuesday has no new named round in fetched copy. A prior hunt is not a new wave. Print dormant. Do not print a second round.

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. Tuesday is not a second polygraph wave. Fifty Joint Staff tests remain a Sept. 4 file. Leave a named new round to later. Print dormant as the named Tuesday hold. Theater remains a later Conversation word if dated later. Print dormant as Tuesday's named leak-hunt hold.

Leak hunts that stay quiet stay open; closure needs charges or exoneration. Neither has appeared. Tuesday's building hums at normal volume.

Normal volume is Tuesday's finding; the hum carries no news. Open files stay open.

Open files stay open; Tuesday's building hums. No charges. No exoneration.

Closure needs charges or exoneration. Neither has appeared. Tuesday's building hums at normal volume.

The Times dated the Joint Staff tests to September 4. Tuesday added no second named round. Quiet from the podium is not a cleared roster. Charges and exonerations are both still missing from the hunt.
Tuesday added no second named round. Charges and exonerations are both missing. The building hums at normal volume.

Tuesday added no second named round. The building hums at normal volume. Tuesday named no second round.

Tuesday added no second named round. The building hums at normal volume. Tuesday named no second round.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington