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I WORLD Brad U.N. inspector presses Iraq for access Jt About You long-range missile program. But inspectors still have questions about the country's chemical and biological weapons programs and Iraqis have been short on An It's beginning to look a lot like Far from home for the holidays? Imagine being in space. find a way that we can do our job," the inspections chief said. It's up to the U.N.

Security Council to decide what to do next if Iraq does not back down, he said. The inspectors are in Iraq to monitor compliance with Security Council orders that Iraq get rid of all long-range missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Until Iraq complies, U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait will stand. Butler said he believes inspectors are likely to close their flies soon on Iraq's nuclear program and are looking for the few "remaining bits and pieces" of information about its day, and there have been no major confrontations since.

But Iraq remains unyielding in its refusal to allow the inspectors into about 60 key sites including about 40 presidential palaces that it insists are vital to national security. Butler told reporters the issue of access will top his agenda in talks with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz on Monday. He said he would seek a way to get the inspectors in without infringing on Iraq's "legitimate concerns for national security, sovereignty and dignity." "We have to work together to BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The chief U.N. weapons inspector went back to Iraq yesterday to push his demand for full access to suspected weapons sites, including buildings declared off-limits by Saddam Hussein. Richard Butler was back in Baghdad for the first time since pulling out inspectors last month in protest of Iraq's expulsion of American members of the team.

The expulsion order touched off a three-week international crisis, which eased only when Iraq allowed the Americans back in Nov. 21 under a Russia-brokered deal. The inspections resumed the next Now there's a pricey bunch of flowers Now he's sure to have fabulous looking hair all the time. Hal Ketchum is engaged to the Nashville music industry's best-known hair and make-up artist, 30-year-old Gina Giglio. The two started dating earlier this year, and when Hal moved to Austin, Texas, to be near his two kids, Gina went with him.

The two are so gosh-durn in love that Hal, 44, sometimes goes on location with Gina, 30, when she has out-of-town make-up gigs. swers, he said. BUTLER The Iraqi government's view of; Butler's visit came via the state-run al-Thawra newspaper yesterday. An editorial accused the Australian of; speaking for President Clinton not the United Nations. "Well enjoy the light show on the Earth instead of our own Christmas light," Dave Wolf said yesterday from the Russian space station Mir.

"Actual- A WOLF "We pretty much fell in love immediately," she if ly, our consoles here look a lot like Christmas lights a lot of the time." What else does the doctorengineer miss? Pizza. And "those sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top that my mom makes." So what do you really think, Matt? Think Today co-anchor Matt Lauer is a hunk? He doesnt 1 said yester The Finest Leathers, Handcrafted For Comfort And Joyi Jj day after calling here from Austin. The two were engaged Nov. 17 at that most ro KETCHUM "IS. "I'm a guy who is about to turn 40, who has a large nose and an overbite, whose hairline in the front is receding, whose hair in the back is LAUER mantic of places, the Austin airport Hal was picking up Gina and greeted her with "a huge bouquet of sunflowers with a purple flower in the middle." "He says, 'If you look really close at the purple flower, there's something special about it' Gina notices a diamond and sapphire band, she freaks, he proposes, she accepts, and dozens of spectators burst into applause.

"It's the best story of my life," she said. More tomorrow. Buffalo Club is splitting They hit big, fast Then they blew up. Buffalo Club, a harmony-driven group formed in 1996, disappearing, who's losing his butt," he tells People. At least he has a good self-image.

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