21.   A US Congressional team wants international observers to monitor presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in Ivory Coast next October, the visiting delegation chief said Tuesday.

22.   But they were tight-lipped after two three-hour sessions between the delegation chiefs.

23.   Delegation chiefs Oren Shahor for Israel and Jamil al-Tarifi worked late into the night in search of an agreement, Jeshurun said.

24.   Didier Gailhaguet, French Olympic delegation chief, on the figure skating judging scandal.

25.   Delegation chiefs were alloted freshly painted suites, but others had to make do with very ordinary single rooms.

26.   The US delegation chief, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci, made no comment.

27.   It also earned the wrath of delegation chief Arthur Tunstall, although he later claimed unconvincingly to have been mis-quoted.

28.   Lower-level officials from both sides had continued meetings in the run-up to a short meeting Wednesday in which the delegation chiefs set their agenda.

29.   Lower-level officials from both sides had continued meetings in the run-up to the meeting Wednesday between the two delegation chiefs.

30.   Negotiators will miss a Friday deadline for signing a draft treaty banning nuclear testing, several delegation chiefs said at the UN disarmament conference here.