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Facing lack of support,
U.S. delays U.N. war vote
Ron Hutcheson, Diego Ibarguen
and Martin Merzer
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — The Bush ad
ministration retreated on the diplo
matic front Thursday night, delaying
until next week a vote on a U.N. war
resolution despite repeated vows to
demand a decision on the unpopular
measure this week.
Diplomats who attended a closed
door evening session of the U.N. Secu
rity Council reported that U.S. and
British ambassadors told the council
there would be no vote Friday and that
talks concerning a resolution could
continue through the weekend.
It appeared no progress had been
made in the session, which ad
journed shortly after 7 p.m. EST. The
council plans to resume closed-door
talks on Iraq on Friday.
The intensifying diplomatic tur
moil came as more U.S. ships and
planes assembled in the Persian Gulf
region for war with Iraq and after
Secretary of State Colin Powell raised
the possibility that the U.S. could
abandon all plans for a vote.
Last week, President Bush said he
would insist on a vote this week, a po
sition the White House had main
tained firmly through Wednesday.
Earlier Thursday, Iraq denounced
a six-part disarmament test proposed
Wednesday by Britain. France, Ger
many and Russia — all members of
the U.N. Security Council—flatly re
jected the proposal. And none of the
six uncommitted nations on the
council endorsed it.
In short, confusion enveloped the
Bush administration’s diplomatic
drive as negotiations started over
again at the United Nations and in
many world capitals. U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan floated the idea
of a summit of world leaders.
“The options remain, go for a vote
and see what members say, or not go
for a vote,” Powell said.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon strategi
cally repositioned warships and de
ployed B-2 stealth bombers from
their U,S. bases to locations within
striking distance of Iraq.
About a dozen cruisers and de
stroyers were ordered from the east
ern Mediterranean to the Persian
Gulf region, where they will join
about 60 warships. The B-2s depart
ed Whiteman Air Force Base in Mis
souri, apparently bound for Diego
Garcia, a British island with a large
U.S. airbase in the Indian Ocean.
In Baghdad, volunteers dug foxholes
and stacked sandbags in city streets
Last Thursday night, President
Bush —• seeking a U.N. resolution
that would pave the way to war if
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein fails to
fully disarm—said that he would de
mand a vote by the Security Council
this week “no matter what the whip
count is. It’s time for people to show
their cards.”
This Thursday, a day of frenetic ac
tivity at the White House left the un
mistakable impression that Bush was
losing ground in his high-stakes bid.
The president worked the phones
again, seeking support from foreign
leaders in a series of consultations so
urgent that he canceled a lunchtime
trip to the Capitol after his motor
cade had completely assembled.
At one point, his aides considered,
then rejected, plans for a trip to meet
British Prime Minister Tony Blair in
England. Under growing anti-war
pressure at home, Blair also worked
to salvage a new U.N. resolution.
Bush has said he is ready to use
force to disarm and depose Saddam
even without a new U.N. resolution,
but Blair faces a severe split in his
Labor Party — even the potential
collapse of his government — if he
sends troops into battle without
UN. backing.
Nine votes on the 15-member
council—and no vetoes—are need
ed to pass a measure. France and
Russia have pledged to veto any reso
lution that carries an ultimatum to
Iraq and an explicit or implied threat
of immediate military action.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services, Knight Ridder
correspondents Kevin Hall and Fawn
Vrazo contributed to this report
U.S. Senate votes to outlaw
certain late-term abortions
Jodi Enda
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — Opponents of
abortion rights won the first of what
they hope will be a string of con
gressional victories, as the U.S. Sen
ate voted overwhelmingly Thurs
day to outlaw a controversial form
of late-term abortion.
The bill, banning what abortion foes
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call “partial-birth” abortions, is expect
ed to sail through the House of Repre
sentatives, as it has in the past. Presi
dent Bush has vowed to sign it into law.
“Partial-birth abortion is an abhor
rent procedure that offends human
dignity, and I commend the Senate
for passing legislation to ban it,” Bush
said in a statement. “Today’s action
is an important step toward building
a culture of life in America.”
Abortion-rights advocates predict
ed that the law would be declared un
constitutional because it does not
permit exceptions to protect the
health of a pregnant woman. The
U.S. Supreme Court struck down a
similar Nebraska law three years ago.
“Given that they didn’t put a com
prehensive health exception in this,
it’s dead on arrival,” said David J.
Garrow, a professor at Emory Univer
sity’s law school and author of “Liber
ty and Sexuality: The Right to Priva
cy and the Making of Roe v. Wade.”
“This will be enjoined by some fed
eral judge literally the very same day
the president signs it.”
Even the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Rick
Santorum, R-Pa., said he didn’t ex
pect the measure to reduce the num
ber of abortions performed in the
United States because doctors could
use other procedures.
“By the actual banning of the proce
dure itself, I don’t think we’re stopping
any more abortions,” Santorum said.
But the Senate vote prohibiting the
rarely used procedure is at least as
important for its symbolism and poli
tics as for its medical impact.
The 64-33 vote marks the first
abortion-related tally since Republi
cans took control of the Senate this
year and shows the strength of a
movement left out in the cold during
the eight years that President Bill
Clinton was in office. Clinton twice
vetoed similar legislation.
The Senate bill would prohibit
doctors from partially delivering a fe
tus and then committing an “overt
act” to kill it. A recent survey con
ducted by the Alan Guttmacher In
stitute, a think tank quoted by both
sides in the debate, found that 2,200
such abortions were performed in
the United States in 2000.
However, abortion-rights advocates
contend that the Santorum bill was
vague enough to outlaw other forms of
abortions as well, particularly those
performed in the second trimester.
“One of the most deceptive aspects
of this bill is that the sponsors pretend
it is about late-term abortions and a
specific late-term abortion proce
dure,” said Nancy Northup, president
of the Center for Reproductive Rights,
which argued the case against Nebras
ka’s law.
Abortion opponents in Congress
served up the measure as their best
first shot this year. Waiting in the wings
are bills that would make it a crime to
take minors across state lines for abor
tions in order to avoid parental-notifi
cation laws; prevent federal, state and
local governments from withholding
money from hospitals that don’t pro
vide abortions; and make it a crime to
injure a fetus during the commission
of another crime.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
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