After passing the medical commission, each prisoner must then be interviewed privately by Red Cross delegates, who ask him if he wishes to return home or stay behind.

They include substituting lethal injection for electrocution, giving the state's highest court the right to set aside death penalty sentences in the interest of justice and allowing jurors to be interviewed privately about racial bias.

The diplomats said they had privately interviewed Iraqis who said they had seen placards and slogans prepared by Government party organizations in support of such demonstrations.

So far, none of those he had interviewed privately - and that had taken time and effort - were more than minimally Talented.

Immediately after the Feb. 5 presentation at the United Nations by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Iraq did present three scientists who it said could be interviewed privately.

Some respondents were interviewed privately and others took part in focus groups in cities around the nation, which were not identified in order to protect the identities of the respondents.

Each guest was interviewed privately after the drive; in all, about 1,000 questions were asked of each participant.

Most of those who testified had been interviewed privately by the commision, commission officials said.

Citizen-Deputy Déroulède had been privately interviewed by the Committee of Public Safety, and temporarily allowed to go free.

He was interviewed privately by the panel recently, and was asked whether he told President Bush that the case for the existence of Iraq's unconventional weapons was a "slam dunk."