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GI Special C/o thomasfbarton@ 8.21.03 Print it out (color best). Pass it on. ? GI SPECIAL #77 ? Canal Hotel, headquarters for the United Nations in Baghdad. Photo/APTN) ? Bombing at U.N. HQ in Iraq Kills 20: Bremer “Runs For Cover;” Members Of Congress Run For Kuwait; Troops Have To Stay; A Small Payback for One Million Killed By UN Sanctions On Iraq Since 1991 ? BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 19, NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES ? A truck bomb exploded at the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 100 others, U.S. officials said. ? The chief U.N. official in Iraq was among 15 workers killed in the deadliest attack on the United Nations in its history.? ?The toll was climbing as rescuers dug through the rubble of the Canal Hotel, a corner of which collapsed in the huge blast.  This is the worst single-day loss of U.N. personnel in the organization’s history,” the United Nations said in a statement. “Missions to Somalia and Bosnia had a high level of casualties, but nothing like the loss of 15 in one day.” U.N. officials in New York confirmed that the leader of the U.N. effort in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, had died after being trapped in the rubble.  L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad, said Vieira de Mello, 55, a Brazilian whose appointment was to have ended next month, may have been the target of the bomb, which went off at 4:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. ET) almost directly under the window of his office. ? The wounded included a senior UNICEF official, according to U.N. and U.S. officials. U.S. forces were not providing security or patrolling near the building, officials in Washington told NBC News, but a U.S. soldier who was assigned to a civil military affairs office in the building was injured. Two witnesses said a cement truck exploded at a concrete wall outside the hotel. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press on conditi