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...help from member states in tracking Saddam's chemical- and biological-weapons activities. In response, the U.S. Air Force lent the U.N. a U-2 spy plane and crew and provided highly detailed photos from its KH-12 spy satellites orbiting above Iraq. According to UNSCOM head Richard Butler, the U.S. was not alone: 40 or more other nations contributed. Many have sent intelligence and weaponry experts to serve on the inspection teams. France, Britain and Russia did so--with Russia even sending a senior KGB officer who had previously served in New York City...
...first, officials told TIME, the inspectors carried the scanners around the country in backpacks. By the end of 1997, however, Butler and his colleagues were worried that it was becoming too dangerous. A search by the Iraqis would have revealed that select team members were wired up with special recording and eavesdropping devices. Another problem was the sheer volume of information that was flooding in over these taps. The British, who had been deciphering the tapes, were tired of digging through thousands of hours of Arabic conversations--99% of which was useless...
Columbia enters the weekend directly ahead of Harvard in the conference standings. Under the direction of one of the most animated coaches in the league, Jay Butler, the Lions have lost their last two and six of their last seven games...
...Chief weapons inspector Richard Butler on Friday appeared to be fighting for his job as he confronted U.S. officials over the revelations that Washington had used UNSCOM cover to spy on Iraq. His efforts will likely be in vain, and he may bail even before his contract expires in June. The leading contender to replace him is Argentine diplomat Emilio Cardenas, who will be kept on a tight leash by the Security Council and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, there?s no sign of an end to the battle of the ?no-fly? zones. As Saddam works to drum up Arab support...
...group quickly agreed that air strikes were the right option. But Clinton decided he would wait to see Butler's actual report before giving the go order. Before the call ended, there was a second discussion, this time about what Berger carefully described as "any other factors that should lead us to do anything differently." What he meant was the certainty of a political storm in Washington about the timing of the attacks. Despite the President's notorious ability to compartmentalize, holding one set of problems separate in his mind from another, there were no compartments so airtight that they...