"What to do now is complex," he said, adding that an appeal was likely within the next couple of weeks.

The judges decide if the findings were properly determined, and a decision is likely within two or three months.

Meanwhile, Berlin is likely within the next few years to have two separate cultural clusters.

It's been plowed at least once, most likely within the past couple of hours.

And the country's program is likely within two years of building them.

That decision could come by February 1988, he said, with a final opinion on the case likely within another year.

A decision on which proposals to pursue was likely within two weeks, he said.

"A deal is likely within the next 24 hours," the person said.

If such activity increases, a quake is more likely within five years.

But analysts said a vote was likely within days.