Word: unscom
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...TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer says the U.S. could be persuaded to accept such a deal if Iraq guarantees to destroy these weapons and allows UNSCOM the unfettered right to monitor the process. Washington could even accept a change in the composition of UNSCOM to achieve more participation by officials from different countries, says Fischer...
...insiders remain skeptical over whether Baghdad will accept such a deal. "There is a lot of suspicion here that Saddam wants to maintain the option of developing weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq will not therefore agree to allow UNSCOM to freely perform its duties," says Fischer...
...That the Americans were allowed to be divided off from the rest of UNSCOM at the end was at least a symbolic victory for Saddam, and the kind of "illegal separation of nationalities" that chief inspector Richard Butler had railed against. Not to worry. "We have a job to do, and we hope to return," said inspector Alan Dacey. MacArthur couldn't have said it better...
UNITED NATIONS: Chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has ordered nearly all his team out of Iraq, after Baghdad announced that American inspectors would be expelled, effective immediately. Cheered on by the White House, Butler said he would "resist this segregation" and leave nothing but a skeleton UNSCOM staff in Iraq...
...Alleging U.S. domination of UNSCOM, Aziz intimated that Iraq had proposed to the U.N. that the crisis could be resolved via a new inspection team composed of representatives from Security Council countries (including the U.S.) in equal proportion ? while insisting that Iraq had nothing to hide on the chemical weapons issue...