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Russia may have lost its superpower status, but it still has the power of veto on the U.N. Security Council--whose approval could legitimize an attack on Iraq. With that in mind, the Bush Administration sent an envoy to Moscow last week in hopes of persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to support a tough new U.N. ultimatum on Iraq. TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge reports on why Putin is playing hard to get, why he'll ultimately yield and how he'll try to use the negotiations to pursue his own agenda in neighboring Georgia. At time.com/putin...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...Hussein could be hiding weapons in his presidential com plexes or on mobile transporters, Washington insisted that U.N. rules on inspections be rewritten before personnel go to Iraq. Baghdad had refused to allow the surprise inspection of Saddam's 57 palaces. China and Russia disagreed with the U.S., and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for "the quickest possible deployment" of inspectors. But chief inspector Hans Blix said: "It would be awkward if we were doing inspections and a new mandate were to arrive." At week's end, the U.S. seemed ready to accept a compromise French proposal...
Stephen W. Stromberg ’05, a Crimson editor, is a Russian studies concentrator is Adams House...