A correction in this column yesterday was itself incorrect. The social welfare assistance increases will come into effect in May 2000, not June 2000 as stated.
In a report of the Christina Murphy Memorial Lecture in the editions of November 30th, Robert Fisk was reported as having said that the estimated 14,000 depleted uranium shells fired in southern Iraq by American forces was equal to about 300 million tons. The figure should have been 300 tons.
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