Yeltsin Alert

Yeltsin kicked off a three-day state visit to Rome by telling reporters that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was heading to Iraq to coordinate diplomatic efforts in a crisis over weapons inspections. Annan, in New York, denied he had plans to visit Baghdad.

Yeltsin kicked off a three-day state visit to Rome by telling reporters that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was heading to Iraq to coordinate diplomatic efforts in a crisis over weapons inspections. Annan, in New York, denied he had plans to visit Baghdad.