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...regime of Saddam Hussein fully accepted its defeat to this day. Although the West expected his warmaking capacity to be blunted once and for all, Saddam has gone back to business as usual. In defiance of U.N. sanctions that ban nonhumanitarian trade and clamp an embargo on arms sales to Baghdad, he is working to rebuild his military and industrial might. Helping him are middlemen, front companies, compliant neighbors and Western businessmen eager to reforge commercial contacts with a big potential customer and the possessor of the world's second-largest oil reserves...
Saddam doesn't always have to defy the U.N. to achieve his goals. Although Security Council resolutions forbid Iraq to possess or develop weapons of mass destruction, they place no such ban on his conventional-arms industry. Using a clandestine technology-procurement network never fully dismantled, Saddam continues to buy spare parts for T-72 tanks in China and Russia, antitank and air-defense missiles from Bulgaria, and may now be turning to West European firms for critical electronics for his air force. At the same time, he has pressed forward with Iraq's ballistic-missile research at newly built...
Saddam's aim is plainly to fulfill the letter of U.N. law by coming clean about Iraq's unconventional-weapons programs in order to get the sanctions lifted. But monitors like Ekeus suspect he has no intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow...
Seeking to dispel voters' perceptions that politicians are the slaves of special-interest groups, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly (95 to 4) -- and in many cases grudgingly -- to ban gifts, meals and recreational travel offered by lobbyists. The House passed a similar but slightly less restrictive measure in March...
...seemingly contradictory rulings, Michigan's Court of Appeals reinstated murder charges against Dr. Jack Kevorkian for assisting in the suicides of two women in 1991, but declared the state's ban on assisted suicide unconstitutional on technical grounds...