Nigeria, March 4 -- Counsel: 'Miss Gibson, in this dwelling on Van Buren Street where you live, which the President owns, is there any means of private access one could use to go from downstairs to the upstairs or vice versa?'

Witness: 'Do you mean, is there some kind of private stairway or hidden passage by which the President and I could have seen one another without being seen by others?'

Counsel: 'I will request you to refrain from rewording or redefining my questions, Miss Gibson. I mean precisely what I asked. Did the President have any private means of getting to your quarters or you to his?'

Witness: 'No. Unless he used a ladder-or the vine that grows on the back wall - but I doubt if the President is, or ever was, that athleti...