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Last week, with on-and-off help from his friends in the U.N. Security Council, Saddam produced a flurry of prestidigitation that was defiant and seemingly conciliatory at the same time. He demanded an end to U.N. inspections and sanctions in six months, threatened again to shoot down the U-2 reconnaissance plane that periodically photographs his key installations and then invited foreign diplomats and scholars to visit his presidential palaces as "guests" (the same term he used for his hostages before the Gulf War). But of course, he added, the expert inspectors of the U.N. Special Commission must stay...
...inspectors have headed for 63 sites where they suspected the Iraqis were hiding weapons, banned equipment or secret records. The U.N. teams were physically turned away from 14 of them and were held up at the front doors before being let into 38 others. In some cases of delay, U-2 reconnaissance planes working for the U.N. spotted cavalcades of trucks hauling material out the back doors. From March to October this year, Iraq blocked or interfered with 25 inspection efforts...
...certainly had a hard time cracking the Japanese market, which doesn't seem to want our cars, computers, film or steel. Don't even mention rice. But last week we finally found something the Japanese truly need: made-in-the-U.S.A. management style. It's the brutally honest kind, which has littered boardrooms with the carcasses of middle managers--and incidentally, enabled us to thrive in a viciously competitive global economy. Europeans are now buying it by the caseload, but Japan has been a country in denial. Its tattered stock market and eight-year malaise have left this once...
BAGHDAD: The UNSCOM inspectors have long suspected Iraqis of sneaking suspect materials out even as they entered a site. But a report in Tuesday's New York Times reveals that U-2 surveillance flights confirm that the so-called "no-notice" inspections are a mockery. Iraq knows about the spot checks ahead of time, said U.S. military sources, and moves equipment accordingly. It's even suggested that UNSCOM inspectors are being spied on at U.N. headquarters in New York...
BAGHDAD: Not another Iraq-U.S. standoff? The two nations traded harsh words over allowing U.N. weapons inspectors to search presidential palaces. While some 75 UNSCOM monitors and a U-2 continued unimpeded in their hunt for chemical and biological weapons Monday, Iraq is continuing to withhold access to 63 possible weapons sites ? including Saddam Hussein's 47 presidential compounds...