51.   U.S. officials have said Washington would not let the WEU use NATO assets, such as fighter planes and troop carriers, if it acted under EU mandate.

52.   He said personal assets should be used in the assessment of welfare benefits and greater use should be made of commercial insurers for social protection.

53.   Experts said this money and real estate assets would be used to partially reimburse the subscribers.

54.   The Swiss government has been accused of using the assets as compensation for Swiss property confiscated by Soviet-bloc governments, particularly Poland.

55.   These would allow small groups of NATO countries to use alliance assets for peacekeeping or other missions where there was not the political will for a wholescale NATO operation.

56.   On Wednesday, Iraq asked the UN body to allow it to use assets frozen abroad to buy food and medical supplies.