71.   Still, crude oil prices fell Tuesday, as oil traders sold on expectations that Iraq might cooperate with the United Nations on weapons inspections.

72.   That is why the administration is quietly supporting a draft U.N. Security Council resolution by Britain and the Netherlands to renew the international weapons inspections.

73.   Tension between Iraq and the international community is rising over weapons inspections.

74.   The administration also was trying to raise the stakes for the Iraqi leader in an effort to persuade him to permit resumption of U.N. weapons inspections.

75.   The action followed U.N. Security Council approval last week of a resolution criticizing Iraq for interfering with weapons inspections.

76.   The days ahead must see the resumption of an aggressive program of weapons inspections in Iraq.

77.   The domestic crisis also came as president Saddam Hussein was provoking another impasse over weapons inspections in Iraq.

78.   The document was released as the world has been focused on the confrontation between Iraq and the United Nations over international weapons inspections.

79.   The foreign ministers had gathered in Geneva to consider the Russian plan to resume the weapons inspections.

80.   The move prompted the U.N. to suspend its weapons inspections in Iraq and led the Security Council to unanimously condemn Iraq.