Bush rejects U.N.-Iraq inspection deal
Brian Whitmore
and Anne E. Kornblut
The Boston Globe (U-WIRE)
VIENNA, Austria — The United
Nations reached a deal Tuesday with
Iraq on terms for the resumption of
weapons inspections for the first
time since 1998 — except at Sad
dam Hussein’s presidential palaces
— but the Bush administration im
mediately rejected the arrangement
and demanded a stronger U-N. reso
lution before the inspectors’ return.
The agreement announced Tues
day by Hans Blix, the chief U.N.
weapons inspector, who concluded
two days of negotiations here with
Iraqi officials, calls for the return of
the first inspection team as early as
Oct. 19. But Secretary of State Col
in Powell said the administration
would oppose any inspections that
take place under the old rules and
urged the U.N. Security Council to
pass a tough new resolution before
‘Let there ben<
.N. resolution
ncil,” Powett
fe not Ac
tions teams)
the old set of
ic old inspec
with the Securit;
tion regime. And therefore, we do not
believe they should go in until they
have new instructions in the form of
a new resolution.”
Increasing the pressure on Iraq
further still, White House press sec
retary Ari Fleischer all but dared the
Iraqi opposition to assassinate Hus
sein or expel him from the country.
Asked at a news conference about
the cost of a U.S. invasion, Fleischer
noted that Bush has not decided on
such an action.
However, Fleischer added: “I can
only say that the cost of a one-way
ticket Is substantially less than (a U.S.
invasion). The cost jf ifte bullet, if
the Iraqi people take it on themselves,
is substantially less than that. The
cost of war is more than that. But
there are many options that the pres
ident hopes the world and people of
Iraq will exercise themselves of that
gets rid of the threat.”
Asked to clarify whether the U.S.
advocated Hussein’s assassination,
Fleischer replied, “Regime change
is welcome in whatever form that
it takes.” v >
The deal with Iraq and Washing
ton’s response touched off fresh de
bate Tuesday over a proposed U.N.
Security Council resolution that was
Ixdngcirculated at 17.N. headquarters
in New York. A meeting Tuesday of
the five permanent council members
to discuss terms for a new Iraq reso
lution ended without agreement.
The U.S.-drafted resolution would,
among other things, delay entry of in
spections teams until Iraq has provid
ed a full accounting of its weapons of
mass destruction — presumably
postponing the inspectors’ return. It
would also authorize any member na
tions to “use all necessary means” if
Baghdad fails to comply with any of
the resolution’s demands.
Blix is expected to report Thurs
day to the Security Council on the
new agreement reached with Iraq.
v George Raine
San Francisco Chronicle (U-WIRE)
President Bush is concerned that
a prolonged shutdown of West Coast
ports would harm the nation’s belea
guered economy and might step in
to prevent it, a White House
spokesman warned Monday.
“If it goes on for even a short period
of time, it’s a problem for the economy.
We’re monitoring it carefully,”
spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters
in Washington as longshore workers
were locked out of their jobs Monday
Contract negotiations resumed in
San Francisco on Monday afternoon.
But the two sides adjourned after
two hoofs, agreeing to meet Wednes
day. The only movement in the im
passe may have eon'e when James
Spinosa, president of the Interna
tional Longshore and Warehouse
Union, said for the first time he
might be willing to accept federal
mediation.
Seventy cargo ships were docked at
ports from San ] Hego to Seattle wait
ing to be loaded or unloaded. Another |
30 have dropped anchor outside the
ports of ()akland, Los Angeles and
Long Beach and other major West
barred from doing their work.
Their employers, American and
foreign flag shippers represented by
San Francisci > s Pacifi* me As
sociation, allege that HAW workers
have engaged in a work slowdown
that has reduced productivity by 54
percent at West Coast ports, which
process some $300 billion in cargo
annually. The union contract ex
pired Sept. 1 ILWU officials have
said they have not engaged in a work
slowdown. , '
A lockout was ordered from Fri
day at 6 p.m. to Sunday at 8 a.m.
Crews began working the Sunday
morning shift but the PMA, believing
slowdowns were again occurring,
shut down the ports again and said
later Sunday the terminals will re
open only when the union signs an
extension of the current contract or
a new contract. . '
Bush could intervene to force a re
turn to work, but such an order could
be politically difficult before the Nov.
5 election as Republicans are trying to
woo the labor vote in several key
states. Moreover, the administration
was pressured heavily by members of
Congress not to intervene because a
task force may consider options if the
labor negotiations worsened.
Chronicle staff writers Edward Epstein
and Henry K. Lee contributed
to this report
Frances Robles
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
BELLAVISTA, Ecuador — The
buzzing of bulldozers pierces this
cloud forest’s cold misty air.
Long a bird-watcher’s paradise,
the Northwestern Ecuadorean For
est is home to 320 bird species, 38
different kinds of hummingbirds —
and now, a $1.3 billion oil pipeline
the government expects will be a
boon to the Ecuadorean economy.
But construction is forging ahead,
despite the protesters in the middle
of the pipeline’s path.
“This is all we have,” said Molly
Brown, an environmental activist
who owns an orchid garden and a
small hotel in nearby Mindo. “The
government decided it was the cheap
est and best route, and we need to let
them know that can’t happen. They
need to take their construction, and
take it someplace else.”
Ecuador agreed two years ago to
allow a multinational pipeline con
sortium, OGP Ecuador, led by Cana
da’s Alberta Energy and Argentine
Spanish giant Repsol-YPF, to build a
312-mile pipeline that would provide
Ecuador with a cross-country route
for heavy crude oil. With the capaci
ty to pump 450,000 barrels of oil a
day, the pipeline represents
Ecuador’s single largest foreign in
vestment in a decade.
The project has been controver
sial from the start. A series of snags,
from labor strikes to management
changes, protests and vandalism, re
sulted in months-long delays and a
$2 million cost overrun.
Running from the Amazon to the
Pacific port, the pipeline project
cuts through 24 communities, in
cluding endangered bird habitats,
water sources and protected forest.
And although it’s now more than
halfway completed, project man
agers have yet to resolve prickly
environmental resistance from ac
tivists who vow to stop it, even as
construction moves forward.
The pipeline was the subject of a
protest this summer by internationally
known activist Julia Butterfly, who was
deported after rallying outside OOP’s
Quito headquarters. The loudest cries
have come from Mindo, a town near
Quito, the Ecuadorean capital.
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