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Nation Thursday • February 26,1! Republicans question U.S. support of U.N. deal WASHINGTON (AP) — Fending off Re publican criticism of a U.N.-brokered deal with Iraq, the Clinton administration insisted Wednesday that military force re mained an option and ruled out any swift easing of economic sanctions. “We’re not going to swallow this hook, line and sinker,” Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said of the agreement U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan worked out last Sunday with Iraqi Presi dent Saddam Hussein. But Senate Republican leader Trent Lott denounced the U.N. agreement as a cave-in and said accepting it would be the same as buying “peace at any price.” “It is always possible to get a deal if you give enough away,” Lott, R-Miss., said in a speech on the Senate floor. “The deal negotiated by U.N. Secre tary-General Kofi Annan with Iraq does not adequately address the threat posed by Saddam Hussein,” he said. It was the first clear rejection of the deal by a congressional leader and may make it more difficult for President Clin ton to convince Americans that the nego tiated settlement was a better alternative to U.S.-led airstrikes against Iraq. Lott portrayed the deal as an abdication of U.S. power to the United Nations. “The secretary-general is calling the shots,” Lott said. “The United States is not.” Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defended the administration’s Iraq pol icy before a House Appropriations sub committee. “It is real-world policy, not a feel-good policy,” she said. "Some in Congress say reject it,” Al bright said of the agreement. “We believe the wisest course is to test it.” We retain the au thority, the responsi bility, the means and the will to use mili tary force if that is re quired,” Albright added. Touching on some of the fuzzy provisions, Albright Hussein said the diplomats who will be added to U.N. inspection teams will be “observers only,” with the monitors conducting the searches. She also said an arms control specialist — not a technician — will be added to the panel in charge and will head the teams that go to the so-called presidential palaces. The administration, which has de scribed its acceptance as only tentative, said the deal sets up a “win-win situation” in that either U.N. monitors will be able to get at suspected hidden biological and chemical weapons or, if Saddam backs out of his promise of unfettered inspec tions, support for a military attack would be greater than during the latest crisis. Besides, easing U.N. economic sanc tions against Iraq is “a long way off” and only hypothetical at this stage, State De partment spokesman James F Rubin said. The accord acknowledges the heavy burden the attempted isolation of Iraq has had on the Arab country’s economy. GOP representative retires instead of challenging House leader WASHINGTON (AP) — Once a fast-rising GOP star, New York Rep. Bill Paxon announced plans Wednesday to retire from Congress, deciding against a leadership challenge to Majority Leader Dick Ai mey that threatened to expose deep divisions in the Republican ranks. “I will never run for office again. Never. Not even for dog warden,” said Paxon, abandoning his career seven tumultuous months after he was ousted from his lead ership post for involvement in an abortive coup against Speaker Newt Gingrich. “The priority of family must now take precedence over politics,” Paxon, 43, added in a letter to his GOP col leagues. He said he and his wife, former Rep. Susan Moli- nari, parents of a daughter whose second birthday is this spring, hope to have additional children. She resigned her seat last year to begin a new career at CBS-TV In the months since Gingrich snapped up his offer to resign his leadership post, Paxon flirted openly with a challenge to Armey in hopes of positioning himself to be come the next GOP speaker. He told reporters he had de cided last week to make the race, then changed his mind for family reasons. “I took those lists last night and I put them through that paper shredder,” he said of the notes he had made of conversations with GOP colleagues. Armey’s allies scoffed at the talk that Paxon could have mounted a successful challenge, saying the New Yorker had failed to expand his support significantly be yond a small group of dissidents who had plotted against the speaker last fall. Armey emerges as the chief beneficiary of Paxon’s de cision, and Gingrich benefits as well. Rep. David McIntosh, R-Ind., a conservative critic of the leadership, said of Armey, “I think probably he now has re-election as majority leader.” As for Gingrich, he does not have to contend with a potentially divisive leadership election at a time when he is eager to solidify the Republican majority at the ballot box this fall, then turn his attention to a possible race for the White House in 2000. Colleagues responded with a standing ovation when Paxon went before a closed-door caucus to announce his retirement plans. Allies and rivals alike rushed to congratulate him on a career spent helping forge and then maintain the first Re publican majority in the House in 40 years. "Our friendship has grown over time and been strength ened by adversity,” said Gingrich in a written statement. Pentagon hitb computer hacke WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the weeks, the Pentagon’s unclassified computer! works were hit by the “most organizedanl tematic” attack yet, apparently by hackers on peering into personnel records orpayrol ters, the Defense Department saidWedne* No classified information appears to been tampered with, but the matter remain very serious, long-term problem,” said Defense Secretary Jcjhn Hamre. Ihl “ We ha ve o rg; mi zed o u rselves much mor t ; gressively and more closely with the justice partment to get our hands around this P ’’hei Hamre said he was constrained vulging too many details about the attacks cause the military was working with Juste pursuing potential criminal activity. Hamre told a group of defense when onslaught should serve as a “wake-upcali'i the military in particular and societyoveiii guing that neither thegovri nnu iu non 1( ] vate sector has done enough to protectsa p live networks from such attacks. He described the intrusions as "fairlybAj rebel attacks' <n ri thr past tun weeks on | “all the appearances of a game” andappara ly was perpetrated by “a small numberofiu viduals,” he said. “It was the most organized and system! attack the Pentagon has seen to date,”he Hamre said the attacks appeared tob curring at a time when a “hacker contest’ going on, but hr did not say itir contestoiilp] mated or offer any further explanation He said the attacks did not appear to becc nected with the crisis involving Iraq. INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS in 154 Bizzell Flail West -Monday, February 23 10:30-11:00 AM -Tuesday, February 24 3:00-3:30 PM -Wednesday, February 25 9:30-10:00 AM -Friday, February 27 1:30-2:00 PM Pick up an application at the meeting or drop by the Study Abroad Program Office. Study Abroad Program Office, 161 Bizzell Hall West, 845-0544 na pj £■! I MEXICO Study Abroad as a ... Reciprocal Exchange Student 1998-99 at Monterrey Tecnologico MSC Film Society 4 fitexenii. 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