1.   Among the changes would be the creation of an independent monitoring committee to oversee and report on military operations every six months.

2.   An independent monitoring committee is standing by to see if the cancer death rate in one group exceeds that in the other.

3.   But the experts on the monitoring committee already had analyzed the data, another form of peer review.

4.   But the company and one of the principal investigators declined to disclose the data upon which the monitoring committee based its decision.

5.   But the study was stopped ahead of schedule last March because a safety monitoring committee found a clear benefit for ramipril in a preliminary review.

6.   Charles McClain, a member of the monitoring committee, declined to comment late Friday.

7.   Demps said he would work with the monitoring committee.

8.   Earlier Thursday, a court-appointed monitoring committee denied a request by the board to delay past a deadline today for completion of negotiations with Edwards.

9.   Fresno State president John Welty, chair of the consent-decree monitoring committee, has determined that most campuses will make the fall deadline.

10.   France called for an early meeting of an international monitoring committee for south Lebanon, which it and the United States chair.