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...where it is," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.S. strategists are hoping that if defeat appears inevitable, Saddam's scientists will start talking and his generals will disobey his orders to launch unconventional weapons. But that's just a hope. A senior Arab diplomat predicts that if Saddam intends to use chemical or biological weapons, the U.S. won't be able to stop him. "It will be a dirty war," the diplomat says...
...continent say: Give it more time. France, Germany, Russia and China have all publicly and privately urged Bush to slow down. With the exception of the U.S., every one of the 15 members of the Security Council wants inspections to continue beyond this week's report, says a Council diplomat. Even the staunchly supportive British are not eager to fight soon. While dutifully repeating Washington's "weeks, not months" mantra about the end of inspections, a British official admits "we need to give [chief inspector Hans] Blix the time he needs...
After weeks of dampening expectations for "smoking gun" evidence against Iraq, the Bush administration is now teeing up an "Adlai Stevenson moment." That's diplomat-speak for the instant in which a U.S. official trumps all naysayers at the United Nations by hauling out graphic, incontrovertible evidence that its enemy is lying. Stevenson, as President John F. Kennedy's UN ambassador in 1962, slam-dunked the Soviets during a heated Security Council debate by producing satellite photographs that disproved Moscow's denials that missiles had been stationed in Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to produce a similar effect...
SOUTH ASIA Tit for Tat Relations between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan further soured as India expelled four Pakistani diplomats for spying and Pakistan retaliated in kind. The first expulsions followed New Delhi's allegation that whenever Sudhir Vyas, its most senior diplomat in Islamabad, tried to leave his home, he would be boxed in by Pakistani agents in their cars. Pakistan has also alleged that its diplomats suffer harrassment in New Delhi...
...grind on in Strasbourg, Russia is also fighting with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, whose mandate in Chechnya expired at the end of last year. Moscow refuses to let the small rotating team of OSCE staffers remain. "That was the international presence in Chechnya," a disgusted diplomat told TIME. "And this is what the Russians are pissed off about - four people on the ground." Absent a new mandate, the OSCE is to leave Grozny on March 21 - giving the locals one less place where their war stories will be heard...