Revert Patch #670715: iconv support.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2356ca8..2e6c536 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 Extension modules
 -----------------
 
+- The iconv module has been removed from this release.
+
 - The platform-independent routines for packing floats in IEEE formats
   (struct.pack's <f, >f, <d, and >d codes; pickle and cPickle's protocol 1
   pickling of floats) ignored that rounding can cause a carry to
@@ -105,8 +107,6 @@
 Build
 -----
 
-- Fix build problems when _iconv_codec failed.  (SF bug #690012.)
-
 - Fix problem building on OSF1 because the compiler only accepted
   preprocessor directives that start in column 1.  (SF bug #691793.)
 
@@ -276,9 +276,6 @@
 - The SSL module now handles sockets with a timeout set correctly (SF
   patch #675750, fixing SF bug #675552).
 
-- A new module _iconv_codec has been added, to expose the iconv(3)
-  library.
-
 - os/posixmodule has grown the sysexits.h constants (EX_OK and friends).
 
 - Fixed broken threadstate swap in readline that could cause fatal