P. Walsh, Office of the United States Attorney, Civil Division, Chicago, IL, Howard M. Shapiro, John McNamara, Larry R. Parkinson, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent-Appellant.
Before EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.


1
These are consolidated appeals growing out of a petition to enforce a 1981 consent decree.  In one appeal, the Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that the order enforcing the decree is based on a flawed interpretation of its language;  the other appeal is from an award of attorney fees to the petitioners.


2
In 1974, the original plaintiffs in this case, including the Alliance to End Repression and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a class action complaint against the City of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department, the U.S. Attorney General,and the Director of the FBI, alleging that the defendants were engaging in unconstitutional conduct directed at their First Amendment activities.  After several years, the case was settled in August of 1981 by the entry of a consent decree which was approved by a district judge.1  Alliance to End Repression v. Chicago, 91 F.R.D. 182 (N.D.Ill.1981).


3
The consent decree purported to give standing for enforcement petitions to all former named plaintiffs, any member of the plaintiff class, or any U.S. person residing in Chicago prior to the effective date of the stipulation.  That is why the current petitioners, including the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with the people of El Salvador--CISPES--claim to have standing to bring this enforcement action.  CISPES falls within the plaintiff classes in