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...what's at the top of the inspectors' to-do list? Not looking under Saddam's bed for hidden nukes - at least not right away. The C-130 UN transport plane carrying chief inspector Hans Blix and his team landed at Saddam International Airport with equipment for a more urgent task: industrial vacuum cleaners, to perform some desperately needed housekeeping at the inspectors' base in Baghdad...
...Iraqis are living like there's no tomorrow, that's because they seem gripped by an ever deepening sense of fatalism. This week, UN weapons inspectors, led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, are back in Baghdad after a four-year absence. But Iraqis see their arrival as delaying war rather than preventing it. Even Saddam himself seems to echo the anxiety. The letter from Saddam's government accepting Security Council Resolution 1441 is full of defiant rants about injustice, but its key passage cites the normally defiant Saddam's "sacred duty" to spare Iraqis from disaster...
...TIME: That comment about softness sounds like a response to Washington hawks who say that Hans Blix...
...BLIX: I wouldn't say that we have any assumption at all. Nor do we give any benefit of the doubt. We have to try to establish the facts. [We have] first of all to examine the declaration that Iraq should make before the 8th of December. Hopefully it will be a very detailed, factual account. And secondly, we have a great many sites that we intend to visit...
...TIME: Speaking personally, is there anywhere Hans Blix would rather be headed next Monday than Baghdad...