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...created in 1999 to replace UNSCOM, the inspection team that was withdrawn from Iraq after being denied access to sensitive sites. Blix, who spent 16 years heading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was tapped to lead UNMOVIC when the U.S.'s preferred pick, former UNSCOM chief Rolf Ekeus, was nixed by France and Russia on the grounds that Iraq would never readmit him. Washington hawks - who charge that under Blix the IAEA missed weapons programs in both Iraq and North Korea - still see his selection as a sop to Saddam. "I've heard that Hans Blix is soft," says...
...resigned. The 145-year-old company's share price has plunged 80% this year, and investors have turned their wrath on the board and management as investigators have widened their probe into accounting errors and a secret investment scheme that some executives allegedly used to enrich themselves. New CEO Rolf Dörig certainly doesn't have an enviable task. The company will press ahead with a sorely needed rights issue to raise up to $825 million this week, even as investigators and analysts look for more cracks in the firm's foundation. Perhaps his first move should...
...exactly the sort of fellow Bush Administration hawks would have chosen to send to Baghdad as their point man on disarmament. Blix was actually as a compromise appointment in 2000, when Iraq rejected the Washington-backed Rolf Ekeus to replace Richard Butler, the abrasive Australian whose confrontational tactics had more than once precipitated crises. His reported reluctance to take the job couldn't have been more graphic - Blix was on vacation in Antarctica when Kofi Annan called to recruit...
...Dutch mobile company at zero. spanish gales Spain's second-largest power utility, Iberdrola, agreed to pay €1 billion over four years for the wind farms owned by Gamesa. INDICATORS Pensions Without Borders Pan-European pensions moved closer to reality as the European Court of Justice ruled that Rolf Danner, who lives in Finland, should receive the country's normal tax breaks although he pays into a German pension. The ruling is key for companies who want one scheme for all their E.U. employees. On The Waterfront The International Longshore and Warehouse Union went on strike, shutting down...
...Rolf Ekeus, the Swedish former director of the inspection team--officially, the U.N. Special Commission--has said those leftovers from before the Gulf War constitute a "marginal" threat. The real anxiety is over what Saddam, free of prying spies, has been brewing during the past four years. In August, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told CBS Evening News his country possessed no "nuclear or biological or chemical weapons." The CIA maintains Iraq's race to acquire a fresh supply of weapons has accelerated. The evidence it has presented so far is somewhat soft. Without inspectors on the ground...