Carlos Valenzuela, top United Nations electoral expert in Iraq, says that despite the absence of international monitors, "Things could go wrong . . . But, so far, everything is on track" for Iraqi national assemblyelections in January 2005. (AP/Boston Globe)(NYT)
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