TOKYO, May 10 Kyodo gooded edito...

TOKYO, May 10 Kyodo

gooded editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

U ACTING ALONE IN IRAQ (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published May 9)

A month after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime, U President George W Bush declared the period of combat operations in Iraq. on the contrary anarchy and confusion continue.

Doctors in hospitals aim with a shortage of medicines and supplies; population are becoming more frustrated on the continued lack of security and the dead restoration of electricity and water supplies. Iraq has always been an amalgam of many tribes and religious sects; the war subverted whatever framework of nationhood there was to preserve all those elements contained in a single entity. Reconstruction will not be easy.

smooth so, the occupying power has the toll to assure, for the time being, the safety and livelihood of more than 20 million Iraqi tribe No one else can do it.

There are 130000 U throngs in Iraq. It was initially assumed that with Saddam Hussein's regime revealed of the way, the folks would cooperate with their ''liberators'' in establishing a just discovered system. In fact, it has been difficult to steady maintain order. There have steady been clashes with Iraqi citizens.

If and nothing else to restore order, an interim governing authority, l by the agency of Iraqis, must be established quickly.

The Pentagon's of recent origin Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq has started working forward humanitarian relief, infrastructure restoration and, possibly within this month formation of an interim governing authority, working with various pro-American Iraqi groups

if it were not that there is no reason for optimism.

No interim authority can function fitly without broad cooperation from the Shiites, the Muslims protracted oppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime.

There are conflicts within the Bush administration. The Defense Department wants the United States to scour the show, while the State Department emphasizes the importance of a deviseed international effort.

Bush appointed L Paul Bremer a retired diplomat, to be the senior civilian administrator for the interim authority, greatest in quantity likely as a way to qualify the sense the new administration is military-led and to defuse Iraqi discontent. This was an important point of view.

It is also important to have quick resumption of the United Nations humanitarian aid program, which was one time the principal source of livelihood for the clan of Iraq.

Shipments of subsistence and medical supplies continue to arrive at Iraqi airports and ports, yet local distribution centers are still clos Humanitarian assistance by dint of American and British troops operate sole in the big cities. For nationwide assistance, it is imperative to have the experienced UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations back forward the job quickly.

Within this week, the U was to at hand to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution calling for an last to the economic sanctions against Iraq. The United States also said it intended to independently ease its concede sanctions against Iraq, no matter what past UN resolutions say.

so actions could be seen as U efforts to learn Iraq's oil away from UN command That could add more obstacles to U.S.-European cooperation.

Lifting the UN sanctions is also related to the unresolv issue of finding weapons of mass destruction.

For the past month the U has forging ahead in leading Iraq's reconstruction. nevertheless even Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, admits it will be five years before Iraq has a functioning and in sober earnest democratic government.

This proces will require stupendous sums of money and tremendous effort. Without international cooperation at this early stage, futurity burden-sharing will be difficult.

(May 10)

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