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The NYT emphasizes diplomacy too, stating that Iraq on Sunday sent signals it did not want a military confrontation with the U.S., and that the U.S. had persuaded Russia to have a go at pressing Hussein diplomatically to back down.
He was opening a new telephone exchange that he called a big step in repairing the damage caused to Kuwait by Iraq in the last such confrontation.
The official sound bite of the weekend--offered up by Clinton and by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger (on CNN's Late Edition ) and aped by the heads--was that this confrontation pits Iraq against the world, not Iraq against the United States.
Reporters traveling with Dole caught a glimpse of the enmity Oct. 9, when Nelson Warfield, Dole's press secretary, staged a public confrontation with Seelye.
The Sun , which is Britain's biggest-circulation paper, may have been heading for a confrontation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on this issue, but the peace agreement ended any danger of that.