11.   The U.S. plans to send experts to France, Russia and Malaysia to gather information and explain the U.S. position, Rubin said.

12.   UNESCO sent its experts, and president Mario Soares visited the site.

13.   Police bomb experts were sent to the scene.

14.   Police firearms experts were sent to the consulate to investigate, said a police spokesman, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity.

15.   Police spokeswoman Carmen Chong said bomb disposal experts were sent to the Shatin Racecourse after a cleaner found a small supermarket bag containing suspicious materials.

16.   After the death, hazardous materials experts were sent to the jail as a precaution, Deputy Fire Director Jose Cruz said.

17.   After the ethnic Albanian pullout and intense bargaining involving the Western envoys, President Boris Trajkovski said both sides had agreed to send experts to a negotiating session Friday.

18.   Chicago police have accepted the invitation to send an expert to Poland, and talks are continuing with New York police, Pawel Biedziak said.

19.   China is to send an expert with Butler on Monday.

20.   China said Wednesday it has sent health experts to an AIDS-stricken village, but a doctor who publicized the outbreak criticized the move as inadequate.