Boycott Over Kirkuk

Protesting Kurds yesterday called for a boycott of the planned January elections if the Arabs Saddam forced to move to the city have not left. Such a boycott would, of course, be bad, and together with a similar action in the Sunni triangle would mean that not only would Iraq have a government which rigged the system to put itself in power, but that only the Shi'ite south had any formal say in the matter.