Word: iraq
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Never mind Saddam's pesky air defenses -- Washington's taking more heat about Iraq from a French U.N. policy document. A fourth consecutive day of "no-fly" zone skirmishes Thursday followed France's proposal for a new, more humanitarian strategy on Iraq. "Much of Paris's plan is unacceptable to Washington," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But the French initiative highlights the fact that Washington right now doesn't have a plan...
...Thursday endorsed France's call to lift limits on Iraq's oil-for-food sales, but it remains opposed to the proposed replacing of UNSCOM with a financial monitoring system. Dowell points out that even the existing oil-sales limit amounts to more oil than Baghdad is currently able to produce. "It won't mean much unless Iraq can import machinery to upgrade its oil production, which is forbidden under current sanctions," says Dowell. While France believes sanctions are ineffective and exacting a brutal toll on the Iraqi people, Washington sees them as essential to contain Saddam. "But without...
...Iraq are looking like tired heavyweights in a clinch, but there's no ref to pull them apart and tell them to fight on. U.S. planes Wednesday attacked an Iraqi missile site for the third time in a week, but no progress was expected from a U.N. Security Council consultation over the future of UNSCOM. "Everyone's waiting for Washington to send a signal on how it wants to proceed after the bombing, but we haven't done that," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The Security Council is split over sanctions and the future of UNSCOM, but diplomats...
...Wednesday's U.N. session won't get beyond the airing of differences: France and Russia proposing that UNSCOM be scrapped and sanctions ended, and the U.S. insisting on maintaining the status quo. Which means that for the foreseeable future, Iraq's air-defense units would be advised to keep their heads down...
TIME: How do you react to the December attack on Iraq by U.S. and British forces...