31.   Members are admitted free for one year.

32.   NATO is to decide at a Prague summit in November whether to admit new members.

33.   New members could be admitted at the ASEAN summit meeting in Malaysia in September.

34.   Romanian Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu said he was not satisfied with the plan because it does not include a precise schedule for admitting new members.

35.   Russia bitterly opposes the eastward expansion of NATO and has tried to pressure the alliance on admitting new members from what was once the Soviet bloc.

36.   Redman reiterated the Clinton administration position that there is no time frame for admitting new members to NATO but he did set some explicit criteria.

37.   Regional group admits final member.

38.   Six crew members were admitted to a local private hospital with serious injuries, according to the radio station, which said an engineer later died of his wounds.

39.   The EU has long promised to admit new members, but it has been reluctant to set target dates.

40.   U.N. weapons inspections have been canceled for the past four days since the Iraqis refused to admit American members of the team to the sites.