Creating a certain style in ID CS4

This is a journalism style question. I want to create a style in ID CS4 such that:
1. The initial letter is a drop-cap, AND
2. The first line is all bold, small caps, AND
3. Everything else in the story is a certain body type style.
Is that possible to have one style that will apply all of that at once, or do I need to treat each of those three elements as separate styles?
Thanks

You want a drop cap with a nested style. Drop cap is self-explanatory. For the nested style, make a character style that makes your text bold and small caps, and then set a nested style that calls the character style until End of Nested Style Character. Build the nested style and the drop cap into a paragraph style, and then insert the End of Nested Style Character at the end of the first line.
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