So where are the missing U.N. records? Prosecutor Edward O'Callaghan laid out in court on Tuesday that it is standard U.N. practice to keep a log of visitors to U.N. Secretary-General's official residence in Manhattan. The entries in the logbook usually include the name, date and times of arrival and departure. It is then U.N. procedure to store the filled volumes in the basement of the official residence.

These logbooks are potentially of interest, because some of the testimony in this case has involved allegations of meetings at the official residence between Tongsun Park and Boutros-Ghali.

But here's the mystery. O'Callaghan said that when U.N. security staff went looking last year for the residence logs from the Boutros-Ghali era, which spanned January 1992 to December, 1996, they found only one volume, covering only April 1995 to August 1996. (O'Callaghan flashed across a large screen before the jury an exhibit gleaned from that log, showing what appeared to be some 20 visits by Tongsun Park).

The jury heard that "the basement was accessible to the secretary-general, his family, and the secretary-general's residential staff, including security, housekeeping and cooking staff."

Since Boutros-Ghali moved out, the only family in residence has been that of Kofi Annan. Can Boutros tell us more? Can Kofi? ... should we ask the cook?