VOL. XLI

No. 06

9 February 1998

The Political Scene

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's tour of the Gulf did not result in thekind of public and wholehearted support for military action against Iraq for which theAmericans were hoping. During her visit, international mediators descended on Baghdad andproduced some slight softening of the Iraqi position on UNSCOM access to"presidential" sites, but not enough for France, let alone the Americans. Thereappears to be no chance that the...