41.   The U.S. proposed new sanctions against Iraq as Baghdad refused to budge from its plan to expel American weapons inspectors on a United Nations weapons inspection team.

42.   The U.N. weapons inspection team called UNSCOM, has been stymied for the last year, the officials said.

43.   Police special weapons teams were parked outside the courthouse while police with bomb-sniffing dogs checked spectators.

44.   A biological weapons team visited an Iraqi university, Amin said.

45.   A dispute with the experts led to a three-week standoff last month when Saddam expelled the American members of the weapons inspections team.

46.   A top Iraqi official denied allegations Wednesday that his country tested biological agents on prisoners and complained that U.N. weapons inspection teams still had too many Americans and Britons.

47.   A Russian-brokered agreement last month eased a three-week crisis touched off after Iraq expelled American members of the weapons teams.

48.   A U.N. weapons inspection team turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad, state-run Iraqi radio said.

49.   A U.N. weapons inspectors teams left Baghdad Friday morning after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council ordered American members of the team out of the country.

50.   A U.N. missile inspection team has arrived in Baghdad, joining a biological weapons team already on the ground, the U.N. Special Commission said Monday.