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...tightening around Saddam's neck last week. The U.N. Security Council prepared a resolution, scheduled to be passed this week, extending the embargo to all passenger and cargo flights in and out of Iraq. The move is unlikely to have much practical effect; only a few supplies from Libya, Yemen, North Korea and Vietnam are thought to be reaching Baghdad by air. But it is one more sign of worldwide solidarity against Saddam's aggression...
...issue since the first Security Council resolution recognized they would be allowed in "humanitarian circumstances." Last week the Council accepted a distribution plan put forward by the U.S. and the other four permanent members: the Soviet Union, China, Britain and France. It voted 13-2, with Cuba and Yemen opposed, to allow such shipments on a case- by-case basis and only under the supervision of the U.N. or other international agencies...
...cautious as individuals. Western airline flights to Baghdad and Kuwait City have been canceled as part of the international embargo against Iraq. Some carriers have gone further. Jet Tours, a major holiday carrier 70% owned by Air France, has simply shut down all its tours to Syria, Jordan and Yemen. Some regular commercial carriers are making costly detours around the entire Middle East region. KLM, for example, is rerouting long-haul flights that normally land in Dubai or Bahrain, cutting its weekly service to the region by more than half. Pan Am has rerouted its flights from Frankfurt to Pakistan...
...Saddam's tactics have failed. Rather than unravel, the anti-Baghdad coalition knitted itself more tightly last week. After two weeks of sometimes intense dickering, the U.N. Security Council voted 13 to 0, with Yemen and Cuba abstaining, to authorize "such measures commensurate to the specific circumstances" to enforce the sanctions voted against Iraq four days after the invasion. At Soviet insistence, the phrase "minimum use of force" was dropped, but that is still what the new, vaguer language means. With five dissent-free votes condemning Iraq in three weeks, the Security Council has taken on surprising new life...
...force was necessary to make the sanctions stick gained credibility last week. According to White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Iraq was getting round the prohibitions to obtain military materiel as well as supplies used in the production of chemical weapons. Other Administration officials say the countries responsible include Libya, Yemen, Taiwan and South Africa. Yemen had earlier indicated that it would live up to its reluctant promise to abide by the embargo. It did allow one Iraqi tanker to unload at the port of Aden, but in response to international pressure it later refused to allow two others to discharge...