VOL. XLIII

No. 05

31 January 2000

The Political Scene

The Syrians have declined to send their experts to Washington to discuss the American document tabled at Shepherdstown, and the Israelis who in tit-for-tat fashion then refused to send their own were clearly taken by surprise. The Security Council has managed to agree on a chairman for the new Iraqi arms control agency UNMOVIC.

Syria Declines To Turn Up

Last week, after the Syrians took everyone by surprise when they decided at the last...