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Cheney winds up trip without Iraq mandate

ANKARA MARCH. 20. The U. S. Vice-President, Dick Cheney, leaves West Asia without a mandate for action against the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, but playing a gambit aimed at winning an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire.

Mr. Cheney returns to Washington after a 12-country, 10-day trip to Britain and West Asia.

The trip sought support for further steps in the U.S.-led war on terrorism and Washington's campaign to deprive Iraq of weapons of mass destruction.

But at stop after stop, Mr. Cheney met Arab leaders who he acknowledged were preoccupied with the surging West Asia conflict, and who said Iraq was a far less pressing priority.

The message he received was there would be no support for tough action against Iraq while West Asia violence raged.

— Reuters

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