The Washington Post, November 18th, 1997
SADDAM HUSSEIN has backed off a bit, demanding now not that Americans be altogether barred from the arms inspections teams but that they be there in no larger numbers than Russians, Chinese, French and British. The Iraqi leader still does not get the basic point: It falls to the United Nations, not to him, to define the teams' terms. But it is good to see him feeling the pressure. The United States may be having its troubles making policy; its reported interest in following Iraqi concessions on inspections with improvements in the food-for-oil loophole needs to be handled carefully. But Iraq i...
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