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...oust Saddam Hussein, the lonely road to Baghdad runs through the international organization located at the east end of 47th Street. That's because the support of even Washington's most faithful ally, Britain's prime minister Tony Blair, cannot be assured for a unilateral attack that bypasses the UN And because taking the matter there will help make the case to a wary Congress that war may be the only way of eliminating Saddam's weapons of mass destruction...
...President Bush on Thursday gave Iraq one last chance to comply with UN resolutions requiring that he end his weapons of mass destruction program and submit it to unfettered inspection. Striking a bellicose tone, the President warned Baghdad that complying fully with UN resolutions was its only hope for avoiding...
...Taking matters back to the UN, of course, was not the option favored by Administration hawks. Their reason: The international body is unlikely ever to sign on to the objective of "regime-change," given that non-interference in the internal affairs of nations is one of its founding principles. But the UN is committed, by its own resolutions, to destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs and preventing their reemergence, and that commitment - and Saddam's flagrant violations of his obligations - looks set to become the "trigger" issue used by the Bush Administration to claim international legitimacy...
...issues, such as its collective bargaining agreement. Under the old agreement, there was a five-year moratorium on layoffs and a clause granting the union the right to determine which cars were made in which plants. GM refused to acquire Daewoo until the agreement was altered to eliminate such un-American hindrances. In the end, the Detroit automaker bought two plants in Korea and one in Vietnam; it said it would acquire Daewoo's third Korean factory at Bupyeong, but only if it met higher production standards...
...Hadi, however, makes it clear that he intends to enforce the hudud laws whatever the consequences. The state, he claims, has already trained 140 of its own enforcement officers to crack down on un-Islamic activities. He is currently identifying sites where state prisons can be built. Hadi has never elaborated on where and how the amputations and stonings will be carried out or who will perform them. Clad in a traditional white turban and a green duster draped from neck to ankles, he insists that both the state's Muslims and non-Muslims (about five percent of the population...