Word: breaches
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...confounding the inspection process through a massive counterintelligence effort that includes "sanitizing" sites ahead of inspectors, coaching Iraqi scientists and more. If other Council members share the U.S. interpretation of the intelligence to this effect offered by Powell, they would be forced to concur that Iraq was in "material breach" of Resolution...
Back in November, when the U.S. squeezed out unanimous approval for Resolution 1441 reinstating inspections, the language specified "serious consequences" if Iraq were to be found in material breach of the terms. Ever since, the U.S. has insisted it needs no further U.N. vote to march on Baghdad when it sees fit. But for Europe, the key to the whole diplomatic enterprise is to keep the U.S. under the U.N. umbrella. Aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair say he wants to wring a U.S. commitment for a second resolution from Bush when they meet at Camp David this week...
...found liable for breach of contract, the government argued in December, Harvard would have to repay the $34.8 million the government paid out from 1994, the date of Shleifer’s first investment, to 1997, when the project ended...
...Staff errs in its assessment that the empty chemical weapons warheads found in Iraq do not constitute a “material breach.” Per U.N. Resolution 1441 itself, the mere existence of any undeclared “delivery systems” for illegal weapons necessarily constitutes a violation of the resolution. Thus, it is fundamentally irrelevant whether the United States chooses to wait for the inspectors’ full report, since we already have enough evidence of Iraqi malfeasance to justify military action...
...Blair is likely to press Bush to counsel patience and press Bush to stay on the path of seeking UN authorization for military action. Blair affirmed on Wednesday that Britain would support military authorized by a UN resolution, or in a situation "where it was clear there was a breach by Saddam and there was unreasonable blockage of a Security Council resolution." Those are two important qualifiers: Firstly, that the case for war be made on the basis of evidence of a breach - and Britain has differed conspicuously with U.S. efforts to characterize Iraq at this stage as in breach...