1.   It threatened to end those inspections in New Jersey, and possibly at thousands of other centers around the country.

2.   That agreement effectively ended serious inspections of those palaces and other properties and allowed only one round of pro forma visits by monitors chaperoned by teams of diplomats.

3.   The new commission would be a successor to the U.N. Special Commission, which was forced to end its inspections after Iraq refused to cooperate.

4.   Butler said despite the failure to win approval to search the palaces, there was no intention to end the inspections.

5.   David Kay, a former inspector and now a Washington consultant, said Clinton had acted knowing that bombing risked ending inspections altogether.

6.   Diplomats in Baghdad said privately that Butler and his inspectors were under pressure from U.N. Security Council members France and Russia to end the inspections as soon as possible.

7.   Iraq also wants a timetable for ending the inspections and lifting economic sanctions.

8.   Iraq on Saturday notified Annan that it had reversed its decision to end the inspections.

9.   Iraq said Sunday that a draft resolution being circulated by the Russians at the United Nations to end inspections of suspected nuclear sites did not meet Iraqi demands.

10.   It has demanded that the United Nations come up with a firm timetable for ending the inspections and lifting the sanctions.