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To: lorne who wrote (24035)	12/9/1998 9:58:00 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 117036

Iraq Says U.N. Tries ''Provocative'' Inspection 08:26 a.m. Dec 09, 1998 Eastern BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq said U.N. weapons inspectors tried to carry out a ''provocative'' inspection in Baghdad Wednesday but pulled back after an Iraqi official asked them to explain what they were searching for. The official Iraqi News Agency quoted an official as saying inspectors tried to enter a political party headquarters in the Iraqi capital for a surprise inspection. When they were challenged for a list of items they were looking for they refused and pulled back, the agency said. It did not say if the inspectors were specifically refused entry. Officials from the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) overseeing Iraq's disarmament were not immediately available for comment on the incident, which comes as Iraq's cooperation with the inspectors is under intense scrutiny. ''At nine o'clock this morning a team of inspectors tried without prior notification to enter one of the headquarters of the party in Baghdad in a way which was at the same time astonishing and provocative,'' the Iraqi New Agency quoted Hussam Mohammad Amin, Iraq's main liaison officer with the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspectors, as saying. ''A party official who was present at the building asked the team for written notification specifying ... what the team was searching for in the place,'' Amin said. ''But the team refused this request and left the site.'' ''It appears that such provocative and astonishing methods practiced by elements of the Special Commission's inspection teams clearly aim to manufacture crises and problems,'' he said. UNSCOM is carrying out intensive operations to test Iraq's pledge of cooperation with the inspectors, charged with scrapping its weapons of mass destruction.

To: lorne who wrote (24035)	12/9/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: RagTimeBand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117036

lorne Re the story you posted: >>London--Dec 8--Recent revelations that the European Central Bank and the Bundesbank are to re-value their gold reserves at market prices is more evidence that the "mythology" surrounding gold is being replaced by a harsher economic realism, Mitsui Bussan analyst Andy smith said in a report entitled "To market, to market." "On any definition, these are admissions that gold is no longer special, no essential 'cost of doing central bank business', no overhead to be borne just for old time's sake. A wake-up call for sleeping dogs lying. A mining, almost mercenary approach," the report said. Story .12635<< Would you post the URL to that story? Thanks - Emory