21.   In Beijing, Polish diplomatic sources said the Polish six-man truce monitoring team would have been arrested by North Korean authorities if they had refused to leave.

22.   In Washington, State Department officials denied reports that a monitoring team is being put together.

23.   Iraq created another major crisis this week when U.N. monitoring teams were turned back because of American members.

24.   Last month, a government-appointed monitoring team said the international aid effort in Indonesia appeared to be free of corruption.

25.   Last month, the two agreed to joint border monitoring teams as part of an Iranian-brokered agreement.

26.   Meanwhile, three monitoring teams from the Vienna-headquartered International Atomic Energy Agency went to check three previously declared weapons sites, U.N. spokeswoman Caroline Cross said.

27.   Meanwhile, two nuclear monitoring teams went into the field on Sunday, a day after the government said it was ending almost all cooperation with U.N. weapons teams.

28.   Nonetheless, most inspections passed off without incident and Baghdad-based monitoring teams went into the field Tuesday.

29.   Nils Carlstrom, the Swede who heads the U.N. monitoring center in Baghdad, said all monitoring teams inspecting potential weapons-making facilities.

30.   Nuclear monitoring teams at work, but U.N. inspectors blocked.