1.   In the fallout of the Fuhrman tapes, Williams and Hill asked the council Tuesday for additional tools and financing to speed up reforms.

2.   Mineta asked the council just prior to the vote.

3.   The letters asked the council for instructions.

4.   Whitman finally asked the council on Friday to acknowledge the opposition and ban the hunt.

5.   Albania and Italy on Thursday asked the council for an urgent meeting.

6.   After similar problems with Iraq last spring, the United States and Britain submitted a resolution asking the council to impose travel restrictions on Iraqi military and intelligence officers.

7.   DOE asked the council for a second opinion on the process.

8.   Ekeus also asked the council for help in pressuring countries to disclose details of what weapons they had sold to Iraq before the sanctions.

9.   He said the suspension meant simply that he was asking the council not to include him in further votes until he again presents his name.

10.   In the past, Jilani said, the United States asked the council not to act, in order to give their peace efforts a chance.