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Blix’s problems 

Tim Trevan, who worked with Unscom the last time inspectors were allowed in Iraq, has an interesting perspective on the problems Hans Blix and his team will face.

“Even if the inspectors overcome Iraqi countermeasures and get close, Iraq would block the inspectors at gunpoint before they get ‘smoking gun’ evidence. And it is impossible to prove a negative — that Iraq has no weapons capabilities. What Unscom tried to do was to prove a positive — that all Iraq’s capabilities had been accounted for. But this, too, is impossible without the cooperation of Iraq’s suppliers.”

13 days in Minnesota 

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has an authoritative day-by-day account of the crucial Minnesota senate race. On the memorial service: “None of the speeches has been vetted. It hasn’t occurred to anyone that they need to be.”

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