Corrections
Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about military activities in Iraq misstated the origin of the ban on flights over a Kurdish-populated area of northern Iraq. It was imposed by the United States, Britain and France, claiming authority under a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the repression of Kurds and others in Iraq. The United Nations did not create the zone and disputes the assertion that the Security Council resolution authorizes one.
The headline of the article misattributed a report that Iraqi secret agents had been deployed in the northern zone. The principal source was Glyn Davies, a State Department spokesman, not John M. Deutch, the Director of Central Intelligence.