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...However], we are dealing with a sovereign country. A country can decide to go it alone and renounce agreements it completed with us. But I trust the good sense of President Suharto and his people. They won't do that. They know the programs are good. But the program has not delivered all its potential because it has been either not implemented fully or was circumvented...
...this state-of-the-art challenge the Dalai Lama brings, in his own words, a "radical informality," a gift for cutting through to the heart of things and an unusually open and practical mind. If I had to single out one sovereign quality in him, it would be alertness, whether he's reminding me of a sentence he delivered to me seven years before or picking out a friend's face in the middle of a jam-packed prayer hall...
...Security Council Thursday on Iraq's continued prevarication. Aziz, he said, told him that Iraq had destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction ? but then turned around and increased the number of sites to which Butler and his team are denied access. Now it's not only "presidential and sovereign sites" that are off limits, but also ministry headquarters, plus anywhere Saddam Hussein has ever lived, worked, or vacationed. Apparently the same restrictions do not apply if you're carrying a camera and a press pass. Perhaps Butler would have more success taking a cover...
...members of the Security Council. They could visit the palaces and stay "a week, a month, to see the facts," said the Iraqi News Agency. Of course, sleight of hand followed. Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf quickly barred any of the U.N. inspectors from accepting the invitation. "Those sovereign sites," he said, "are from the very beginning completely out of Iraq's work" with the Special Commission. "They are immune...
After all the public theater on both sides last week, the terms of the confrontation did not change. If Saddam was still in his box, Clinton was still in his quandary. Saddam wins if he manages to keep the inspectors out of his "sovereign sites." The U.S. loses if it cannot bring the anti-Iraq coalition back together, at least inside the Security Council. Without it, any "last option" military action by the U.S. appears remote...