21.   The TEST inspection never took place.

22.   The tougher emissions inspections take efect in May in select counties.

23.   They want an international seismic and atmospheric detection system supervised by a treaty committee that would decide when a verification inspection should take place.

24.   U.S. officials said they expect an inspection to take place in the middle of May.

25.   A key problem for China has been how inspections of suspected violators could take place.

26.   A required U.N. inspection would take three to four years.

27.   But the inspection teams would determine when and where the inspections would take place and the diplomats would merely be observers.

28.   But the two countries have kept their forces in the Gulf to ensure that the palace inspections take place.

29.   Butler has not said how long the palace inspections will take.

30.   But UNSCOM and the IAEA would determine when and where the inspections would take place and the diplomats would merely be observers.