Dr. Blix was expected to report today to his international advisory board, called a "college of commissioners," on his readiness to return inspectors to Iraq and Iraq's rejection of the new program.
Even so, he has repeatedly said, he has to return inspectors to Iraq to establish what he calls new "baselines" from which to work on determining whether Iraq has completed "key disarmament tasks" as called for in United Nations resolutions.
Making his most extensive remarks to date on the looming confrontation with Iraq, after meetings here with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, Mr. Putin said the most urgent issue was how to return inspectors to Iraq to verify that country's compliance with its commitments to dismantle nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs.
"So many of us, I think, are skeptical that simply returning the inspectors will solve the problem," Mr. Cheney said in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California.
Biden says he believed Bush when he said he wanted to return weapons inspectors to Iraq.
She said she had helped prevent terrorist attacks against the United States and worked to return weapons inspectors to Iraq.
With nuclear inspectors returning to Iran this week, that test could come soon.
After 33 feature-length episodes of "Morse," followed by a five-year break, Mr. Whately and a higher-ranking Lewis returned in "Inspector Lewis," which has run for 27 episodes across seven seasons.
However, the cast will remain the same, with Matthew Macfadyen returning to play Detective Inspector Reid, accompanied by Jerome Flynn as the newly promoted Detective Inspector Bennet Drake.
And when the inspectors returned, they approved the finished construction.
