51.   Annan met Tuesday with Richard Butler, executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission, which is in charge of inspecting suspected weapons storage sites in Iraq.

52.   Anti-terrorist officers who raided a suspected weapons factory caught an Irish Republican Army engineering team at work, officials said Friday.

53.   APTV has the latest Iraqi TV pictures of Saddam, comments from the U-N and UNSCOM footage of suspected Iraqi weapons dumps being blown up.

54.   Annan is considering traveling to Baghdad to give diplomacy one last chance to resolve the crisis over access by U.N. inspectors to suspected weapons sites.

55.   Australian troops would remain on standby in the Gulf until U.N. officials were allowed to inspect suspected Iraqi weapons sites, Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday.

56.   Britain and the United States had threatened military action if Iraq refused to open suspected weapons sites to U.N. arms inspectors.

57.   Blix wants U.N. inspectors to go to Iraq to update old data, visit suspected weapons production and storage sites and determine pending issues.

58.   Britain has stood firmly with the United States on the issue of access by U.N. inspectors to all suspected weapons sites.

59.   Britain and the United States had threatened Iraq with air strikes if Baghdad refused to open suspected weapons sites to U.N. arms inspectors.

60.   Britain and the United States had threatened military action after Iraq refused to open suspected weapons sites to U.N. arms inspections.