111.   Mexico President Vicente Fox is proposing to the Bush administration that U.S. intelligence officials conduct security checks on their Mexican counterparts, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

112.   Mineta said the Coast Guard should be allowed to conduct security checks of foreign ports.

113.   Nigel Crisp, chief executive of the beleaguered NHS, said he would conduct random checks of patient records and lists and fire workers who falsified medical information.

114.   On-the-spot checks will be conducted and those who violate the law will be exposed and required to pay compensation, it added.

115.   President Kelle Simon told The Associated Press that background checks are conducted on potential hires.

116.   Policemen conducting standard checks had discovered that, on some flights, more than half the passengers arriving from Istanbul were illegal immigrants.

117.   Repairmen were working around the clock to renovate a family-owned home for his return and international peacekeepers conducted security checks on the buildings he might visit.

118.   Selangor chief enforcement officer Mohd Kassim Zainal said checks would be conducted to determine if there was a shortage.

119.   Spokesmen for the airlines said they had taken steps to tighten security, including conducting background checks on passengers and more carefully scanning and searching luggage.

120.   The Colorado Bureau of Investigation conducts background checks for gun purchases and concealed-carry permit applications.