11.   Nunn was one of the co-authors of the U.S. program that provides assistance to Russia in scrapping chemical weapons and in enhancing security around its nuclear arsenals.

12.   Protestant leaders have warned they will scuttle the coalition within weeks unless the Irish Republican Army starts to scrap weapons, as promised last year.

13.   Protestant politicians are refusing to nominate a candidate for government until the IRA starts to scrap weapons.

14.   Sinn Fein says the IRA might have begun to scrap weapons by now had Trimble not kept raising the issue.

15.   The inspectors are in Iraq to determine whether Baghdad has complied with U.N. orders to scrap its weapons of mass destruction under terms which ended the Gulf War.

16.   The IRA began scrapping its weapons last month.

17.   The government has already been shut down once by Britain when the IRA refused to start scrapping weapons, and Protestants threatened to walk out.

18.   The inspectors are in Iraq to determine whether Baghdad has complied with U.N. orders to scrap its weapons of mass destruction.

19.   The Security Council has refused to lift those sanctions until Baghdad scraps its weapons of mass destruction.

20.   The sanctions will only be lifted when Iraq proves to U.N. weapons inspectors that it has scrapped its weapons of mass destruction.