On the other end of the line is Terrence Burke, a highly decorated former C.I.A. officer and onetime acting director of the D.E.A. who now runs I.G.I.'s foreign operations.

Mr. Plummer and Dr. Miller (the former "Beyond the Fringe" member and onetime artistic director of the Old Vic in London) show no signs of being intimidated.

It was named after Nathan Eckstein, a Seattle businessman, Seattle School Board member, and onetime director of Seattle Public Schools.

When Adelyn D. Breeskin, a onetime director of the museum, organized the first retrospective of Johnson's work in 1971, she discovered he had died only the year before, at the age of 69.

But because the museum is ensconced inside the secretive and secluded C.I.A. headquarters - now named for former President George Bush, the agency's onetime director - the general public cannot come in.

Two former officials of the Talent Bank - a onetime director, Nydia Padilla-Barham, and Annette L. Medina - testified that the Talent Bank was devoted to political, not minority, employment.

By the time Ashton, the Royal Ballet's onetime director and all-time great choreographer, died in 1988, England was no longer the land of tea and crumpets.

The deletion of the Shaffer name reflects the departure in 1992 of Monica Shaffer, the agency's onetime senior vice president and media director.

Makharbek Vaziev, the current Kirov Ballet director, has retained the 1950 staging of Konstantin Sergeyev, the company's onetime artistic director, who died in 1992.

This was the first time since Antony Tudor's death on April 19 that a work by the company's choreographer emeritus and onetime associate director had been performed by the Ballet Theater.