61.   In August, Iraq severely limited the activities of U.N. weapons inspectors and, earlier this month, it halted them altogether.

62.   In her remarks on Tuesday, Albright said the administration had ruled out the use of force to press Saddam to accept new weapons inspectors.

63.   In Baghdad Friday, the top United Nations weapons inspector said Iraq had revealed new details about its clandestine weapons program.

64.   In NEW YORK, crude oil rose as the return of United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq was clouded by the shooting of a UN soldier.

65.   In other markets, crude oil rose after U.S. President Bill Clinton warned Iraq to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors and coffee rose.

66.   In the face of international outrage, Iraq has already sent mixed signals about its confrontation with the weapons inspectors, suggesting it may yet retreat.

67.   In recent years, Beijing has supplied Iran with ballistic missile technology and has taken an indulgent line toward Iraqi defiance of United Nations weapons inspectors.

68.   Iraq accuses the weapons inspectors and the United States of planting nerve gas on an Iraqi missile warhead in order to implicate Iraq falsely in weapons violations.

69.   Iraq allowed U.N. weapons inspectors to resume their work over the weekend after a three-week hiatus.

70.   Iraq has floated similar ideas before, but the United Nations and the United States have rejected any attempts to impose conditions on the weapons inspectors.