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To: Tommaso who wrote (78931)	11/14/2000 10:00:23 AM
From: Terry D	Respond to of 95453

Iraq chipping away at sanctions UNITED NATIONS (AP) - With help from Russia, France and the Arab world, Iraq has ended a de facto air travel embargo. Now it's chipping away at 10-year-old U.N. economic sanctions and seeking more control over its oil riches. Baghdad's high-profile campaign to end its long diplomatic isolation appears to be gaining momentum. Long-closed borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia are opening up to U.N.-approved goods. Dozens of businessmen, officials, scientists, artists and athletes have traveled to Iraq for the first time since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Baghdad demanded - and is getting - payment for oil sales in euros instead U.S. dollars, the hated currency of an enemy state. The response from the United States, which is publicly committed to ousting strongman Saddam Hussein, has been muted - something diplomats and analysts have attributed to a lack of desire in the Clinton administration to create an Iraq crisis during the presidential campaign. But they don't expect changes in the wake of the election. That's mainly because Washington's hard-line strategy to isolate and punish Iraq has almost no support at the United Nations and has been undermined by events on the ground, said David Malone, president of the International Peace Academy, a New York think tank.