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Newspapers with strong international coverage, like the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, have weighed in with stories from around the globe that TV has missed, like a report in the Monitor last week asserting that China had tried to circumvent the embargo against arms shipments to Iraq. Even papers that usually pay little attention to foreign coverage have sent reporters to the gulf region, and several have uncovered fresh news. The San Francisco Chronicle's Carl Nolte, for example, reported last week that some troops at the front are short of key pieces of equipment and basic...
While trying to keep its neighbors in check, Iran has been quietly striving to win friends inside Iraq. Frequently accused of violating the trade embargo against Baghdad in the run-up to the war, Iran last week announced openly that it would be sending food and medicine to Iraqi noncombatants, as is permitted under U.N. guidelines. Both countries have Shi'ite Muslim majorities, though the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein is dominated by Sunni Muslims. Tehran's ultimate goal, some analysts say, is to foment a takeover by Baghdad's Shi'ites. If the day ever comes that friendly...
...sense -- the ability to damage Iraq's economy -- the embargo and blockade are undeniably working. Iraq is especially vulnerable to sanctions; its foreign-exchange earnings depend almost entirely -- some 95% -- on oil exports, and shipments have been shut off, depriving Baghdad of more than $1.5 billion in sales every month. Its imports of food and industrial goods have also been squeezed to less than 10% of the quantities Iraq consumed before its invasion of Kuwait last August...
Historically, economic pressures have failed more often than they have succeeded. Usually they were too narrow, like those imposed by the U.S. on Poland after martial law was declared in 1981, or poorly policed, like the U.N. oil and arms embargo directed at South Africa. But the sanctions against Iraq are more potent than any since World War II, says Gary Hufbauer, a professor of international finance at Georgetown University. Everything moving in and out of the country is affected, and much of the world is participating. Observes Hufbauer: "This is isolation of magnificent proportions...
...allied forces would have enormous technical advantages: satellite intelligence pinpointing Iraqi deployments, and devices that make visibility at night almost as great as in the day, to name only two. Even in a drawn-out war, the Iraqi troops -- fighting without allies, cut off from foreign supplies by the embargo, and with their own munitions factories under incessant aerial bombardment -- would lack staying power; every bullet they fired would deplete a shrinking supply. The trouble, once again, is that Saddam may simply not see any of that. Western military men fear he has little idea of the fury and firepower...