CHEMICAL WAR FEAR FADES.(Main)

Byline: Lee Bowman Scripps Howard

Allied fears that Iraq will launch massive attacks using chemical or biological agents against U.S. troops are increasingly fading.

Senior Pentagon officials said that even though Iraq may have stockpiled thousands of tons of chemical weapons in and around Kuwait, its ability to deliver and resupply those stocks has been dramatically cut by the bombing campaign.

Ever since the first Iraqi Scud missile was fired two days into the war, the fear of a poison gas attack has haunted the populations of Israel and much of Saudi Arabia.

But after more than 60 Scud launches, it appears unlikely that chemicals either …