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...bioweapons can be hidden almost anywhere and scientific amateurs can turn them out in a small room in a country the size of California, how can U.N. inspectors hope to find them? No matter what deal Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz may have struck with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, the Iraqis are unlikely to be any more cooperative than they were before. That is, not at all. Since March 1996, the 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...
...their veto power. In the next week Clinton will try to get those allies on board in some fashion by asking them to try to change Saddam's mind. Clinton planned to speak on the phone over the weekend with both Boris Yeltsin and Jacques Chirac; Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who has been in frequent contact with Iraqi leaders, would like to play peace broker. If Clinton asked him to fly to Baghdad, he would happily do so. But Clinton isn't optimistic about diplomacy's chances, and there is no sign that either France or Russia is willing...
...DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...
...State, however, has been careful to cultivate other men whose help she needs. "It makes a big difference...if you can get on a first name basis with a foreign minister," Albright told TIME. She has exchanged a dozen letters and phone calls with usually dour Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who now greets her with flowers when she flies to Moscow. The two even share private jokes. During one of their first meetings, Albright recounted that she learned that her Georgetown house was infested with termites. Now, whenever Primakov's aides try to quibble over a promise...
Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov had been touring NATO capitals demanding a formal treaty between the alliance and Moscow. Yeltsin is looking for ironclad promises that the West will never move nuclear weapons and reinforcements into, say, Poland. Clinton has said no--that would give Moscow a veto over NATO decisions. Washington hopes Moscow will settle for a handsomely bound set of assurances, solemnly signed at a summit this spring...