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American intervention in a Soviet civil war? The thought sounds even crazier than -- oh, say, a suggestion last Aug. 1 that the U.S. might send half a million soldiers, sailors and aviators to the Persian Gulf to fight a war against Iraq. But around the Pentagon and the CIA, the question is by no means dismissed out of hand: circumstances can be foreseen in which the dilemma would at least need to be addressed...
...Aug. 1, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed al-Mashat sat across from Kelly and other U.S. officials in Kelly's sixth-floor office at the State Department. The conversation was tense. Kelly warned Mashat that the U.S. was deeply concerned about the military buildup, that the massing of forces had created anxiety throughout the area. Mashat blamed U.S. rhetoric for increased fears. Preposterous, answered Kelly, noting that 100,000 Iraqi troops were deployed along the Kuwait border. Iraq, said Mashat, had the right to move its troops within Iraqi territory as it pleased; he also assured Kelly that press accounts of negotiations...
...first, analysts now agree, was his failure to press ahead last Aug. 3 after his Republican Guard overran Kuwait. If Iraq's million-man army had gone on to invade Saudi Arabia and the gulf states, the whole shape of the struggle could have been different. "At that time there were no American forces in the area," says Andrew Duncan, assistant director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. "Saddam's troops could have swept down the . gulf, toppling one state after another...
...said with almost a stenographer's accuracy -- the following: "As a realist I understand the true state of affairs. Yet I cannot resolve the question of Kuwait if it is not tied up with the solution to other problems of the region. I have already expressed this idea on Aug. 12. However, I want to make one thing clear ((and here Saddam was stepping back somewhat from his Aug. 12 statement)). The time linkage and the process leading to a solution of the Palestinian problem are to be discussed at negotiations...
...Kuwait. Once again, according to our proposals, Saddam would know ahead of time that talks with the Kuwaiti leadership about these disputes would be organized within an Arab framework -- but only after the withdrawal of Iraq's forces from the entire territory that was under Kuwait's sovereignty until Aug...