Mission briefing

Alumnus to be proud of No 159 may be about to jet to Bagdhad in a bid to prevent bombs falling on the handiwork of the British university graduates implicated in Saddam Hussein's biochemical weapons build-up. Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, brings to the fight an economics degree from the University of Science and Technology at Kumasi, Ghana, a Masters in management from MIT and economics studies at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota.