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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.
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