Despite a telephonecall from Madeleine Albright, America's secretary of state, to offer her services, no progress was made on the nagging issue of how to handle the Greek-Turkish quarrels over ownership of uninhabited islands close to the Turkish coast and oil rights under the Aegean.
But the Martins, as well as McDermott, may have violated state and federal law, which makes it a crime to listen in deliberately to a telephonecall or to disclose the contents of one that you know has been overheard illegally.