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...what Blair admitted was a "fear it's being done for the wrong motives." They didn't like being out of the European mainstream, which was summed up in the "total hostility" French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared toward the U.S. draft of a U.N. resolution that would automatically authorize war if Saddam Hussein stymies weapons inspectors. Forty percent of Labour delegates backed a rebel motion denouncing any use of force ever. Clinton got some digs in at Bush for disdaining allies and international institutions. But he forcefully backed Blair and Bush in seeking...
...living permanently in Switzerland. When the crunch came, even though overall unemployment remained low at 2.6%, "a large number of poorly qualified people lost their jobs," says Yves Fl?ckiger, who studies poverty trends at the University of Geneva. To slow immigration, the Justice Ministry has proposed a draft law that would limit work permits primarily to highly skilled E.U. nationals. Though there is no national minimum wage, welfare payments administered by individual municipalities are available to the needy. But poverty carries with it a social stigma, and many people are too ashamed to ask for help. "A strong work ethic...
...State Powell warned Tuesday the U.S. would do whatever it could to thwart a resumption of inspections on flawed terms, insisting the inspectors be mandated by a new Security Council resolution clearly setting out strict terms and deadlines for Iraqi compliance before they return to Baghdad. But the draft resolution Washington has circulated reads more like the scenario for creating a de facto beachhead in Iraq for a U.S.-led invasion force. It speaks of inspection teams accompanied by foreign troops based inside Iraq, who would have the power to declare "exclusion zones" around suspect sites anywhere in the country...
...question now becomes whether Washington sees its draft resolution is a negotiating position, or a take-it-or-leave-it offer to the UN. And diplomats report getting mixed messages on that question from the Bush administration, with the State Department reportedly more inclined to negotiate a consensus in the Security Council in the coming weeks, while more hawkish elements hope to truncate the diplomatic detour on the road to a war they see as inevitable...
...Vienna to discuss practical arrangements for resuming such inspections. But in the absence of any new Security Council resolution changing the terms of inspections, Blix is working off the existing script - one which is unlikely to satisfy U.S. demands. Indeed, media reports claim that a new Security Council draft resolution being proposed by the U.S. and Britain includes demands for access to the presidential sites and all other government buildings and mosques; for security forces to accompany the inspectors into Iraq; for the right of permanent Security Council member states (Russia, China, France, Britain and the U.S.) to put their...