71.   U.S. officials said they could not confirm reports Chinese officials may have boarded the U.S. jet, which has sophisticated monitoring equipment.

72.   To date, the inspectors have only visited sites already searched to check on monitoring equipment.

73.   U.N. weapons experts are ready to resume work in Iraq although recent U.S.-British airstrikes damaged monitoring equipment at many suspected sites, a senior inspector says.

74.   U.N. monitoring equipment under a new treaty to ban nuclear tests detected what appeared to be an Indian explosion, experts in weapons control said Monday.

75.   USAID is supplying seismographs and other monitoring equipment to the center monitoring Mount Nyiragongo, Lutz said.

76.   He added that a strict minimum of monitoring equipment would remain on the islands to evaluate radiation there in the future.

77.   However, better monitoring equipment made it easier to tell quickly if a baby was in trouble during a natural birth and decide whether to perform a ceasarian.

78.   In Seoul, South Korea, Carter had said the North Korean leader pledged to keep International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and monitoring equipment in place.

79.   The spokesman said strict security measures were in place at the Karni crossing, including dogs trained to sniff out explosives, and electronic monitoring equipment.

80.   The spokesman said strict security measures would be in place at the Karni crossing from Israel, including dogs trained to sniff out explosives, and electronic monitoring equipment.