Rigid Controls on Iraqi Arms Sought : Mideast: U.N. Security Council is likely to adopt a Draconian plan that would apply for an indefinite time. It calls for the closest scrutiny ever of a member state.

Members of the U.N. Security Council, on the one-year anniversary of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, unveiled a plan Friday calling for an indefinite period of Draconian arms controls on the regime of Saddam Hussein.

From missiles to microbes, chemical weapons to nuclear materials, Iraq’s military establishment will be placed under a microscope, according to the extraordinarily detailed documents that include lists of materials Baghdad’s government will be barred from producing.

If versions of the plan are adopted by the council, which seems likely, U.N. experts will seek to conduct the closest scrutiny ever of a member state’s military establishment.

The plan, created by the International Atomic Energy Agency and a U.N. special commission created to search for and eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, rests on the pillars of immediate free access by arms control inspectors, aerial surveillance of the entire Iraqi countryside and strict monitoring of categories of goods Baghdad can seek to buy on world markets.

Special monitoring and verification teams would have the power to seize and destroy any weapons materials Iraq seeks to hide.

As a measure of the extent to which the United Nations would go to prevent Hussein from creating hard-to-detect biological weapons, standards are set for bacteriological laboratories in Iraq. Government officials are required to report within a week to the U.N. commission all cases of infectious diseases affecting humans, animals or plants that deviate from normal patterns.

The historic U.N. proposals came as the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to support new air attacks and any other “necessary means” President Bush may decide to authorize to eliminate Iraq’s ability to produce nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

The 97-2 vote, coinciding with the anniversary of the invasion of Kuwait, came amid new warnings by the Bush Administration that it is prepared to use force to make Iraq comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to disclose and dismantle its weapons of mass destruction.

Other developments Friday:

* Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, appearing on four television networks, charged that Saddam Hussein is still seeking to conceal materials to build nuclear bombs. But Cheney said the Bush Administration still hopes that the Iraqi dictator will obey the U.N. resolution ending the Persian Gulf War, making further U.S. bombing unnecessary.

* The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said the Gulf War and a poor harvest have left Iraq’s population, particularly its children, facing massive starvation and that food shipments are essential. The FAO said in a report that Iraq needs $2.64 billion over the next year to purchase food and another $500 million to rebuild the agricultural sector.

* Iraqis passed the anniversary of their army’s invasion of Kuwait quietly, wire services reported. Most spent Friday as they always spend the Muslim day of rest, visiting the mosque, catching up on shopping in the souk and relaxing with their families. “We want to forget,” the Reuters news service quoted one woman who was walking with her husband near the Khadimiya mosque in a suburb of northwest Baghdad.

The sweeping U.N.proposals came against the background of weeks of startling disclosures by U.N. inspectors about Hussein’s war-making potential. The inspectors had told the Security Council that Baghdad’s government was building massive facilities to enrich uranium, was seeking to assemble the world’s largest cannon and had stockpiled many times the number of chemical weapons it had previously revealed.

The proposals by disarmament experts, relayed to the council by U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, were designed to prevent such events from recurring.

Some of the U.N. inspectors’ information was difficult to obtain. Iraq at times was evasive, and at one point, Iraqi soldiers fired over the heads of inspectors seeking to examine a facility where uranium enrichment equipment was hidden.

At the heart of the plan, the special U.N. commission would have the right to inspect “without hindrance” any sites, vehicles, ships, aircraft or any other means of transportation in Iraq. Its inspectors can fly over facilities and conduct other aerial surveillance.

The commission would scrutinize materials arriving in and leaving Iraq. The plan envisions “prolonged or continuous presence of inspectors or use of instruments” in the nation.

U.N. inspectors would pay particular attention not only to raw materials that can be used for war but also items with a dual use--that is, those that have peaceful applications but can be modified for weapons.

Iraq would be required to make regular reports to the commission and to provide “immediate and unimpeded access to any site, facility, activity, material or other items to be inspected,” the plan says.

In addition, Iraq’s government is required to pass legislation providing for criminal punishment of those who violate the U.N. resolution ending the war and the long-range plan presented by Perez de Cuellar.

The special commission would report every six months to the Security Council on how the plan is being implemented.

To deter the stockpiling of chemical weapons, Iraq, among other measures, must report the production of certain chemicals and cannot import, develop or store chemicals that are essential for weapons.

To prevent the stockpiling of biological weapons, 30 days after the Security Council adopts the plan, Iraq must give the commission detailed information about facilities that work with genetic materials, toxins and microorganisms with germ warfare potential. Among other safeguards, the Baghdad government also must reveal any site producing vaccines and notify the commission of any imports of weapons-potential microorganisms.

Not only must Iraq report within a week to the special commission infectious diseases deviating from normal patterns, it must also report any illnesses caused by microorganisms that could be used in germ warfare. Iraq is barred from conducting any activities in the field of microorganisms and toxins using military personnel.

To deter the construction of nuclear weapons, Iraq cannot acquire or develop any components, research or manufacturing facilities connected with atomic armaments, including the enrichment of uranium. The plan envisions regular inspections by U.N. teams. All nations would be required to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency, among other measures, with a list one month in advance of any intended exports to Iraq of nuclear materials.

The IAEA will submit to the Security Council a list of nuclear items requiring advance notification.

Making it clear that Bush would have strong bipartisan support for whatever course he chooses to take, Senate Democrats who voted against authorizing the use of force against Iraq last January were eager to go on record Friday as approving it. Only Sens. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) and Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) dissented.

Sponsored by Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), the non-binding “sense of the Congress” resolution said the Senate “supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of Resolution 687,” the U.N. cease-fire agreement that orders Iraq to eliminate all of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons development programs.

“Should the use of force prove necessary” to compel Iraqi compliance, the resolution said, the President “is urged to take all reasonable precautions to ensure that innocent civilian casualties are avoided or minimized.”

Amended to a Defense Department authorization bill nearing approval in the Senate, the resolution was framed in a non-binding form to reflect what supporters said is the Administration’s view that Bush does not need new authorization to use force against Iraq.

A White House source said that, while Bush welcomed the expression of support, he believes he already has the authority to use force and had not sought the vote.

However, Dole and other supporters said the vote was still needed to send a forceful warning to Hussein not to misread American intentions again.

“This puts the Congress squarely behind the President in sending the message to Saddam in the loudest and clearest possible terms: You are out of wiggle room, you are out of bluffs, you are out of time,” Dole said.