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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...
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...
...draft peace accord near Paris. The rebels will be part of a new national reconciliation government that draws ministers from across the Ivorian political spectrum. The deal calls for President Laurent Gbagbo to cede some of his powers to the new Prime Minister, Seydou Diarra, a respected Muslim diplomat who served as Premier in 1999 and 2000. The rebels dropped their demands for Gbagbo's resignation and immediate elections. They agreed to disarm. And progress was also made on the question of Ivorian citizenship requirements, which Muslims believe Christians have manipulated to keep them from power. But many key details...
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...