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...storm is brewing at the U.N. over just how many secret deals Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN may have made in Baghdad in order to defuse the crisis with Iraq. While Annan has insisted that he has no intention of weakening the U.N. Special Commission, the group that is tracking down SADDAM HUSSEIN's weapons, two developments this week have called UNSCOM's future effectiveness into question. First, Annan stationed a special U.N. representative in Baghdad. That will provide the Iraqis with an alternate channel of communications that may circumvent UNSCOM. Second, Annan is seriously considering a Russian proposal that...
...stands to profit most from the expansion of the Oil for Food program the U.N. put into place just before Kofi Annan went to Baghdad? The new plan will allow Iraq to increase its sales to roughly half the amount of oil it was pumping before the Gulf War. As it turns out, France and Russia pushed the program much harder than Iraq, which initially feared this option would reduce pressure to get sanctions lifted. But Saddam Hussein realized that the more cash he could earn to buy food to keep Iraqis from starving, the more hard currency reserves -- into...
...Kofi Annan may feel like he has the raw end of the deal Wednesday. While his appointed deputy, Jayantha Dhanapala, touches down in Baghdad to head up the diplomatic posse that will enter the long-disputed presidential palaces, the secretary general embarks on a rather riskier mission: Selling the U.N. in Washington. And Annan, ever the consummate diplomat, will be making his own pointed diplomatic gesture -- by steering well clear of Capitol Hill...
...Nane says. "I have never heard him raise his voice." Fixtures on the New York social circuit, the two sometimes drop into three parties in one evening. Last week they were scheduled to attend a dinner on Tuesday at the home of investment banker Steve Rattner; on Sunday Kofi phoned Nane from Baghdad, telling her to assure the hosts he would make it back in time. Holbrooke recalls attending a bash with the Annans at the Waldorf-Astoria last year. "There was a dance band, and most people wandered out at the end," he says. "But he and Nane were...
...younger son, Qusay Saddam Hussein. The agency's activities, Impact reports, have always been well known to Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, who has vehemently denied there is any effort at concealment. Asked by TIME whether he discussed the SSO with Aziz and Saddam, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "I did not get into that...