PAGE A24 Progress on Child Welfare An independent monitoring panel praised the overhaul of New York City's child welfare agency, but said more progress was needed.
Mr. Harris said Mrs. Rell had spoken in favor of a bistate monitoring panel that would give Connecticut a role in locating the Broadwater plant and pipeline.
One such free-speech case involves the actions of Georgia's new monitoring panel and the electric-chair-is-silly accusation.
General de Chastelain, who heads the independent monitoring panel on disarmament, called it "valuable progress" offering "the real prospect of agreement".
What has given rise to the new crisis is a confidential report by Gen. John de Chastelain of Canada, head of a weapons monitoring panel, that offered no evidence that the Irish Republican Army has made any move to start disarming.
A1 Progress on Child Welfare A monitoring panel praised accomplishments the city made in overhauling its child welfare agency, but warned that much more work was needed if children were to benefit from the changes in the system.
Less than four months before the Irish Republican Army is supposed to disarm completely, a monitoring panel is expected to report that the I.R.A. has yet to turn in a single gun or bomb.
They include allowing the I.R.A. to destroy its own weapons, with verification coming from a monitoring panel, and what is called a "rust solution," of alerting the authorities to the location of munitions and sealing them off to prevent use.
Amgen is halting a late-stage clinical trial of an experimental drug for pancreatic cancer after an outside monitoring panel concluded that the drug was unlikely to improve the survival of patients with an advanced form of the disease.
Hu Chusheng, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, reiterated irritation at the human rights monitoring panel in the trade bill, saying it "still contains certain clauses that are irrelevant to trade and are intended to interfere in the internal affairs of China".
