31.   Last year the Clinton administration announced a global goal of phasing out the production of all new fissile materials that could produce weapons.

32.   Last month, an Iraqi defector said he worked on renovating secret facilities for producing such weapons.

33.   NATO has also hit buildings where the equipment to produce such weapons might have been manufactured or stored, the official said.

34.   Saddam claimed again that he was not producing weapons of mass destruction.

35.   Smaller weapons are increasingly produced domestically in places like Novi Travnik and Bihac.

36.   The agency identified eight sites at which Iraq was suspected of producing germ weapons.

37.   The Albanians, led by Rrahman Rama, the commander for Mitrovica of the Kosovo Liberation Army, suddenly produced weapons, including a Kalashnikov, and began firing.

38.   The crisis with Iraq began last month when Iraqi officials began preventing U.N. inspectors from going through suspected facilities to produce weapons of mass destruction.

39.   The disposition of plutonium is a worry, say nuclear experts who fear that it could be diverted to produce weapons for terrorists or other states like Iraq.

40.   The inspection, which occurred in May, found no evidence that the site was being used to produce weapons.