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...Thursday endorsed France's call to lift limits on Iraq's oil-for-food sales, but it remains opposed to the proposed replacing of UNSCOM with a financial monitoring system. Dowell points out that even the existing oil-sales limit amounts to more oil than Baghdad is currently able to produce. "It won't mean much unless Iraq can import machinery to upgrade its oil production, which is forbidden under current sanctions," says Dowell. While France believes sanctions are ineffective and exacting a brutal toll on the Iraqi people, Washington sees them as essential to contain Saddam. "But without...
...heavyweights in a clinch, but there's no ref to pull them apart and tell them to fight on. U.S. planes Wednesday attacked an Iraqi missile site for the third time in a week, but no progress was expected from a U.N. Security Council consultation over the future of UNSCOM. "Everyone's waiting for Washington to send a signal on how it wants to proceed after the bombing, but we haven't done that," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The Security Council is split over sanctions and the future of UNSCOM, but diplomats at the U.N. also believe that...
...Wednesday's U.N. session won't get beyond the airing of differences: France and Russia proposing that UNSCOM be scrapped and sanctions ended, and the U.S. insisting on maintaining the status quo. Which means that for the foreseeable future, Iraq's air-defense units would be advised to keep their heads down...
...UNSCOM spy debacle may have a silver lining after all: It offers U.N. diplomats a way out of the post-Iraq bombing stalemate. ?The U.N. has to reach agreement with Iraq within weeks over the return of arms inspectors, and they know that Baghdad won?t allow UNSCOM back in its current form,? says TIME reporter Stewart Stogel. ?The spying fiasco will force the U.N. to substantially restructure UNSCOM.? And that may be the key to finding an agreement with Baghdad...
...Chief weapons inspector Richard Butler on Friday appeared to be fighting for his job as he confronted U.S. officials over the revelations that Washington had used UNSCOM cover to spy on Iraq. His efforts will likely be in vain, and he may bail even before his contract expires in June. The leading contender to replace him is Argentine diplomat Emilio Cardenas, who will be kept on a tight leash by the Security Council and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, there?s no sign of an end to the battle of the ?no-fly? zones. As Saddam works to drum up Arab support...