U.N. support option fades for America

Friday, March 14, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Forced into a diplomatic retreat, U.S. officials said Thursday that President Bush may delay a vote on his troubled U.N. resolution or even drop it -- and fight Iraq without the international body's backing. France dismissed a compromise plan as an "automatic recourse to war."

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