Et Cetera

During the gulf war, American commanders announced that allied aircraft had knocked out 30 fixed and 16 mobile Scud missile launchers. Iraq contends that coalition forces failed to hit a single one of its launchers. A spokesman for the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq said last week that some launchers had been destroyed under U.N. supervision and that the Iraqis claimed to have scrapped the rest on their own. There was no evidence to disprove the Iraqi claim. In Washington, the Pentagon's Pete Williams conceded that damage to the Scuds "was less than we previously thought."