World IN BRIEF : IRAQ : U.N. Inspectors Visit Missile ‘Graveyard’

U.N. inspectors visited a weapons “graveyard” where Iraq claims to have destroyed substantial quantities of missiles and other terror weapons nine months ago. The 35-member team was dispatched to Iraq to verify a new claim by Saddam Hussein’s government that previously undisclosed Scud missiles, chemical weapons and other arms were destroyed under terms of the Gulf War cease-fire. The revelations last week forestalled a threatened military strike by the United States and its allies to force Iraq to comply with U.N. accords requiring the elimination of its weapons of mass destruction.