鈥淚n my opinion, 80 to 90 per cent will defect. If you鈥檙e an Iraqi scientist getting by on a few dollars a month and you have a chance to live in freedom with your family for the rest of your life, why wouldn鈥檛 you cooperate?鈥�
Khidhir Hamza, a former nuclear scientist who fled Iraq in 1994. The UN resolution allows inspectors to take scientists abroad for questioning (The Washington Post, 15 December)
鈥淭he allegation that we would attempt to obtain a sample of Prince Harry鈥檚 hair is preposterous.鈥�
Advertisement
Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of British tabloid News of the World, denies a plot to get hair for a DNA test to find out if Prince Charles is really Harry鈥檚 father (The Times, London, 16 December)
鈥淚鈥檇 like the President to have an influenza vaccine campaign that鈥檚 comparable. There鈥檚 a disease that kills 10,000 to 20,000 citizens each year.鈥�
William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the US鈥檚 smallpox vaccination policy (Global Security Newswire, 16 December)
鈥淚t is repugnant for a country that cannot feed itself to devote so much of its talent and energies to making missiles [and] nuclear bombs.鈥�
Leader in The New York Times on North Korea (12 December)
鈥淲e need to know why 10 million of our sparrows are missing.鈥�
Rosie Clearly, the British Trust for Ornithology鈥檚 鈥渟parrow tsar鈥�, who will lead the investigation into the bird鈥檚 disappearance (The Independent, London, 16 December)