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...still has the power of veto on the U.N. Security Council--whose approval could legitimize an attack on Iraq. With that in mind, the Bush Administration sent an envoy to Moscow last week in hopes of persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to support a tough new U.N. ultimatum on Iraq. TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge reports on why Putin is playing hard to get, why he'll ultimately yield and how he'll try to use the negotiations to pursue his own agenda in neighboring Georgia. At time.com/putin...
...open all its military sites and weapons plants to inspectors. It is already clear that the trick to writing a winning resolution will be to find language that includes enough patience to keep the Europeans from opposing the U.S. or abstaining in the Security Council--and enough of an ultimatum to keep Washington from bolting the U.N. and acting alone. Evidence that Iraq is harboring or helping terrorists gives the U.S. another argument in the battle of the wordsmiths--and could also provide another rationale for an invasion if weapons of mass destruction are counted, found or removed...
Yale’s decision comes after both Harvard and Stanford bowed to a government ultimatum to let the military attend official recruiting events or else lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants...
...have to submit to UN disarmament resolutions, or else. But the unsatisfactory (for the President) workings of diplomacy in New York and the favorable tide of politics in Washington D.C. have now conspired to throw up a new question for the President to answer: Is the U.S. position an ultimatum to the UN itself to accept U.S. terms for Iraqi disarmament, or else step aside...
...much danger of that right now: Even moderate Republican senators appear to support a compromise congressional resolution that would tie a U.S. decision to attack Iraq closely to UN authorization of military action. Securing consensus at the UN behind a tough disarmament regime backed by an "or else" ultimatum remains a key goal for the Bush administration - but one that is proving to be elusive, and may be more so following the Vienna deal...