41.   The UN disarmament conference in Geneva was in total deadlock Thursday as countries failed to agree on what should be under discussion.

42.   Negotiators will miss a Friday deadline for signing a draft treaty banning nuclear testing, several delegation chiefs said at the UN disarmament conference here.

43.   Nagasaki, which is hosting an international disarmament conference for five days until Friday, was the target of an atomic bombing by US forces during World War II.

44.   Negotiators will miss a Friday deadline for signing a comprehensive nuclear test ban draft treaty, several delegation heads said at the UN disarmament conference here.

45.   Negotiators will miss a Friday deadline for signing a draft treaty on a comprehensive nuclear test ban, several delegation chiefs said at the UN disarmament conference here.

46.   Quoting sources close to the Geneva disarmament conference, the newspaper said data revealing the radioactive leak were disclosed last November by a French Atomic Energy Commission specialist.

47.   Sources at the disarmament conference in Geneva said earlier this month the CTBT could fail unless India, Pakistan and Israel endorse the accord.

48.   Some diplomats were talking Thursday of making one last stab at securing a consensus within the disarmament conference.

49.   The disarmament conference meets in a plenary session Thursday.

50.   The drawback is that it would seriously undermine the credibility of the disarmament conference, up to now the only international negotiating forum for such treaties.