61.   Iraq interferred with four U.N. helicopter flights last week, forcing U.N. weapons inspectors to halt arms inspections, Security Council diplomats said Tuesday.

62.   Iraqi liaison Amin noted that regular arms inspections were continuing.

63.   Iraq announced Monday it would block any arms inspections by an American inspector, a move that could set off a new confrontation with U.N. weapons inspectors.

64.   Iraq declared Monday it would block arms inspections by an American-led U.N. team, renewing Iraqi claims that Americans were slanting the inspections.

65.   It complained last January about public statements on arms inspections by Butler, head of the U.N. Special Commission, or UNSCOM.

66.   Iraq is widely expected to provoke new crises over arms inspections.

67.   Jonathan Eyal of the Royal United Services Institute in London said the airstrikes have effectively ended U.N. arms inspections in Iraq.

68.   Last month, the pope urged the U.N. leader to go to Baghdad to try to avert an attack on Iraq over the issue of arms inspections.

69.   Last week, the pope denounced the Anglo-American airstrikes of Iraq last week and urged Baghdad to do its part to resolve the crisis over international arms inspections.

70.   Moscow has tried to mediate a peaceful resolution to the standoff over U.N. arms inspections in Iraq.