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Iraq said yesterday it's ready to discuss the return of inspectors, but only in the context of ending sanctions and restoring Iraq sovereignty over all its territory, in defiance of U.N. demands that any return of inspectors be "unconditional."
The Associated Press
A chorus of European leaders, including French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, has urged the United States to exercise restraint.
Britain backs attack on Iraq
there has been increasing international pressure on Washington not to act against Saddam without U.N. approval.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Monday that Moscow would not support an attack on Baghdad.
"We hope . . . that this question will not be placed to the Security Council, thereby necessitating the veto of Russia," he said, after meeting his Iraqi counterpart, Naji Sabri, in Moscow.
LONDON—Saddam Hussein poses a grave threat to the world and must be stopped, Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday, bucking the tide of public sentiment and trying to rally international support for U.S.-led action against Iraq.
Russia, however, insisted it would veto any measure for military action against Baghdad that is put before the U.N. Security Council. It urged Saddam to readmit U.N. weapons inspectors to avert the threat of war.
Blair signaled his strong support for Washington's stance on
Iraq, and risked mounting criticism from the British public and from within the ranks of his governing Labor Party.
Blair told reporters that there may still be action international support.
The Bush administration has said it wants to overthrow Saddam, but hasn't decided what action to take.
"This is not just an issue for the U.S. It is an issue for Britain and the wider world. America should not have to face this issue alone." Blair told a news conference in northern England.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the Bush administration has secret information that Saddam is close to developing nuclear weapons.
Rumself hinted at a Pentageon press conference that Bush could disclose the information through upcoming congressional hearings on Iraq.
"Of course it is better to do this with the broadest possible basis of international support. But it does have to be done," he said.
Britain is seen as the United States' strongest ally if there is a war against Iraq. In recent days
'Bye Bye Bye:' Russia boots N Sync star from space camp
MOSCOW — Russia told 'N Sync singer and aspiring cosmonaut Lance Bass to leave the country's Star City cosmonaut training ground yesterday after he again failed to pay the $20 million fee for his planned ride into space.
The 23-year-old had been training since July, after missing several deadlines to pay for his
October ride to the International Space Station.
"it's over," said Rosavialosimos
sookesman Sergei Gorbunov.
Russian space officials negotiated with Bass "in good faith," but "his sponsors didn't fulfill the conditions of the contract and we never received the money," Gorbunov said.
He added that the trip was now an "impossible."
Bass will be replaced on the
ride by a container packed with space-station supplies weighing about the same as him.
However, Bass' publicist in New York disputed the Russian announcement, saying, "The trip is not over."
"We are still in negotiations," Jill Pritzo said.
"We feel very confident that there will be a resolution soon and the trip will go on as planned."
American rides coaster for 104 days
HASSLOCH. Germany — Windburned and weary after 104 days of gut-churning rides, American Richard Rodriguez proclaimed a new record yesterday for continuous roller-coaster riding — his latest in a 25-year passion.
Alternately enduring temperatures of 102 and pouring rain, Rodriguez spent at least 10 hours a day or at least 1,040 hours on the punishing climbs and 203 foot drops of the "Expedition GeForce" MegaCoaster at the Holiday Park in southwestern Germany.
The Associated Press
The new record — recognized by amusement parks and roller coaster producers but not by the Guinness Book of Records — breaks the 100-day record Rodriguez set last summer at the Six Flags Over St. Louis amusement park in Eureka, Mo.
"It was the most difficult challenge by far," Rodriguez said Tuesday, stepping out of the bright yellow cars he has ridden since May 25. "I wasn't sure I would be able to stay on — the designer of the coaster gave me only 10 days."
The 42-year-old doctoral student in psychology at Loyola University in Chicago has been setting roller-coaster riding records in the United States, England, Canada and Germany since the late 1970s.
The feat had too many breaks five minutes every hour, to quality for the Guinness Book.