31.   Iraqi authorities said last week they would allow the Americans a weekly, one-hour visit by the Polish diplomat.

32.   In Washington, a Clinton administration official said the United States has contacted the Iraqi government through Polish diplomats, who handle American interests in Baghdad.

33.   Iraqi authorities continued to refuse permission to a Polish diplomat in Baghdad to visit the Americans.

34.   Jan Karski, a former Polish diplomat who provided early eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the West during World War II, has died.

35.   Krystosik declined to give any details about the trial Saturday, which he and another Polish diplomat attended as observers.

36.   McCurry confirmed news reports that Polish diplomats visited the two Thursday afternoon in Baghdad.

37.   McCurry confirmed news reports that the two had been visited in Baghdad on Thursday afternoon by Polish diplomats.

38.   No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but Polish diplomats linked it with the Auschwitz demonstration.

39.   Polish diplomat Ryszard Krystosik had tried to see the prisoners but was turned away repeatedly without explanation.

40.   Polish diplomats are monitoring the case for the American government.