Mr. Bialer's sources depict the role of Mr. Gorbachev in the Yeltsin case more favorably than has been suggested in accounts pieced together by Western diplomats and reporters.

According to accounts pieced together from former associates, journalists and scholars, Mr. Donaldson's early career followed a familiar trajectory in Ulster.

President Reagan's latest account of the Iran-contra affair, in an address to the nation tonight, closely resembles the accounts pieced together by the Tower commission and other investigators.

Based on accounts pieced together from interviews with lawyers, doctors, parents, the teenagers and Coca-Cola officials, the four did not recover with the same speed as more than 30 others from the same school.

In the account carefully pieced together by Mr. Liberatore, Jackson and his accomplices murdered three guards and two inmates before Jackson was shot while running across the prison yard.

A short time later, the 19 crew members abandoned ship, some climbing into a lifeboat and others crowding into a raft, according to an account pieced together by the Coast Guard.

According to a variety of accounts pieced together from F.B.I. files, the Klan mistakenly believed that they were Black Muslims involved in plotting an armed uprising.

In his account of her life, pieced together from anecdotes, Xiu Xiu's fate assumes an almost operatic fatefulness.

Sometime later, according to an account pieced together from the 7-year-old, a man came to the apartment and promised to buy the children toys if Erica would go with him.

An account pieced together from witnesses and the Egyptian authorities suggests that the attack began when gunmen fired automatic weapons at the bus.