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AREA-WIDE AREA-WIDE.com T hursday • February 19,1 U.N. sends chief in hopes to resolve coni UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. chief Kofi Annan will head to Bagh dad to try to resolve the conflict with Iraq, but Washington has warned that it will not accept a settlement that doesn’t give U.N. inspectors full access to all weapons sites. After several days of intense ne gotiations, the United States gave its conditional endorsement Tuesday for the trip, which could be the last chance to solve the crisis peacefully. The secretary-gjteneral an nounced his decision just hours af ter President Clinton laid the groundwork for a possible air strike, saying in a televised speech that the U.S. military is ready to carry out its mission and “the American people have to be ready as well.” “We wish Annan well. He is a very good diplomat,” U.S. Ambas sador Bill Richardson said today on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Still, he added, “We want to make it very clear we have the right to op pose a potential deal that would harm our national interest.” Annan said he made the deci sion to travel to Iraq on his own, but said he has the support of all five permanent members of the Securi ty Council — the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China— which must ratify any deal. Annan said he did not ask for a mandate from the permanent members but did seek clear direc tion about what he could discuss with the Iraqis. “What I wanted was an under standing and a basis that will help my mission and make it successful and that if I come back, that every body will be on board,” Annan said. Russian President Boris Yeltsin said today the visit was “extremely im portant,” the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, quoting presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky. Foreign Ministry spokesman Valery Nesterushkin said Annan’s visit would not be the last chance for a peaceful settlement, according to the Interfax news agency. Diplomatic sources said the per manent members remained divided over details of a possible settlement. The inspectors must certify Iraqi compliance before the council will lift crippling economic sanctions imposed in 1990, when Saddam Hussein’s troops invaded Kuwait, touching off the 1991 GulfWar. Iraq claims it has destroyed all banned weapons and that the special commission has deceived the council to keep the sanctions in place. Annan’s decision to travel came after ambassadors from the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China met several times in the past week to try to narrow their differences. Several formulas have been proposed. One would have in spectors from the special com mission, known as UNSCOM, be accompanied by diplomats on vis its to presidential sites. Others would have Annan ap point a new group of inspectors, some of which could be from UN- PresidentiaK palac Locations of the eight Iraqi presidential compounds TURKEY SYRIA No-fly zone' m c 36th parallel c ^ % ‘^O/V •- IRAQ Sand That- 33nd parallel Extended notyu 32nd parallel SAUDI ARABIA 100 miles 100 km No-llyzone AP/Wm, SCOM. Iraq has also insisteci 60-day time-limit for inspect) something the United States Britain have rejected. Dark side of Deng’s legacy deepens after his deal BEIJING (AP) — Spotting the green-uniformed police, two dozen scruffy-looking men fled their dai ly chore of seeking work. “Finding a job is really hard,” one breathless fugitive, a farmer named Cui, said before hurdling over the side of an overpass and scurrying down a bank to seek cov er under the bridge. Job-seeking migrants such as Cui are among the most common byproducts of China’s reforms. Crowding into already clogged cities by the tens of millions, they form the darker side of a legacy that has raised skyscrapers and in comes across what was one of the world’s poorest countries. In the year since the Feb. 19, 1997, death of reformist patriarch Deng Xiaoping, the unintended ef fects of his two-decade effort have worsened. Corruption remains rampant, gaps between the newly rich and bedrock poor are widen ing, unemployment is soaring and social ills such as prostitution and drug abuse are spreading. “Deng Xiaoping was the archi tect, but he solved only the prob lems of tlie first period of reform. He left behind a lot of other ones for his successors to solve,” said Wang Shan, an author and political com mentator. A man of Deng's revolutionary credentials and achievements commands influence even in death, and his political heirs in the ruling Communist Party are not letting Thursday’s anniversary of his passing go quietly. In ways solemn and kitsch, Chi na is celebrating the man and the statesman. Stamps, video compact discs and books bearing his like ness and words are being pro duced. Symposiums on his policies are being held. Even an exhibition of portraits done in needlepoint embroidery has been staged. “We stand on the great man’s shoulders. The great man’s shoul ders carry the hopes of one peo ple,” intoned the party’s flagship newspaper, People’s Daily, in a front-page homage Wednesday. The thrust behind the memori als, syrupy, sentimental ones in cluded, is the same. 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