51.   Expert panel holds first meeting to look at Iraqi disarmament.

52.   It was unclear whether a full appellate panel would hold a hearing Monday, or issue a decision based on written legal arguments from both sides, Davis said.

53.   The appeals panel will hold its first session on Sunday in Ramallah, Abbas said.

54.   The elections panel held its first meeting Monday.

55.   The panel held a brief procedural session last month, but Monday marked the formal start of the hearings, which are expected to last several weeks.

56.   The panel will also hold hearings in Albuquerque, N.M., Los Alamos, N.M., and in Washington.

57.   The panel will hold its first meeting Wednesday morning at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

58.   The panel can hold hearings and subpoena witnesses, but has no enforcement power.

59.   The panel held hearings in recent weeks at which several commissioners declared they were unaware of sloppiness and fraud by their staffs or in outside contractors.

60.   The panel held a hearing on the NYPD in New York City last May and subpoenaed thousands of pages of documents and police complaint records.