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Blix insists that all he does is "give an accurate description of the reality that I see." The decision on whether Iraq is in material breach of Security Council resolutions, he says, is a matter for the Council itself. But after an hour-long interview with Blix late last week, a group of TIME editors came away with the impression that he was a lot more skeptical of Iraqi behavior than has been assumed and that he could imagine Saddam Hussein exhausting the patience even of those countries that presently want to give the inspectors more time. The Iraqis, Blix...
...CHARGED. JOSEF ACKERMANN, 54, chief executive of Deutsche Bank; with breach of trust after sanctioning more than $100 million in payments to departing executives of Mannesmann, including chief executive Klaus Esser, in the final days of its 2000 takeover by Vodafone Group; in D?sseldorf. According to Ackermann, the payments were awarded as part of severance pay. If found guilty, Ackermann could face up to 10 years in prison...
...Department of Justice argues that personal investments Shleifer made in Russia constituted a breach of contract and undermined his program’s mission to help manage Russia’s transition to capitalism...
...Nations. Iraq's decision to comply with the UN inspectors' demand to destroy its al-Samoud 2 missiles has strengthened the resolve of those at the Security Council arguing that inspections be given more time. The U.S., Britain and Spain are lobbying for a resolution proclaiming Iraq in "material breach" of Resolution 1441, opening the way to war. But France, Germany, Russia and China are backing a counter proposal to give inspectors more time to pursue peaceful disarmament. Bad-tempered behind-closed-doors exchanges in the Council had yielded little progress, and much had hinged on this weekend's report...
...Blair and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi have pressed Washington to seek a second UN resolution before going to war. Unable to secure passage of a resolution authorizing the use of force right now, the U.S. and Britain have opted instead for a resolution that simply finds Iraq in "material breach" of Resolution 1441 - based in part on Dr. Blix's Feb. 14 report back to the Security Council - and notes that Baghdad has "failed to take the final opportunity" for peaceful disarmament. But the antiwar camp at the Security Council are acutely aware that such language would likely be taken...