41.   The resolution also condemns Iraq for barring access to weapons sites, endangering the lives of inspectors and removing or destroying documents.

42.   The Russians want a formal system in place that could include inspections of weapons sites.

43.   The standoff began three weeks ago when Iraqi authorities prevented U.N. weapons inspections teams that included Americans from visiting suspected weapons sites.

44.   The standoff comes after chief weapons inspector Richard Butler failed to persuade Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to allow access to suspected weapons sites.

45.   The U.N. Security Council has been pressing Saddam since last October to permit unconditional inspection of suspected weapons sites by U.N. weapons inspectors.

46.   The U.N. Special Commission team has authorization to inspect Iraqi weapons sites and destroy its stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.

47.   The United States is insisting that Iraq honor agreements to allow full and unfettered access to United Nations weapons inspectors of suspected chemical and biological weapons sites.

48.   The United States and Britain pounded Iraq for a third day Friday as military forces continued a furious missile bombardment of weapons sites and infrastructure.

49.   There is no factory, no presidential palace, no weapons site here.

50.   They hooked up with other advocates and began a crash education course on the history of Pantex and other weapons sites.