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...George Bush prepared to launch a ground war, Mikhail Gorbachev made one last attempt to broker peace between Iraq and the allies. Once again he dispatched his personal adviser, Yevgeni Primakov, to Baghdad, and then agreed to see Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Moscow. The Kremlin desperately tried to persuade Saddam that he must comply with the U.N. Security Council resolutions or face the terrible consequences of a ground battle. Here is Primakov's account of those last, tense days...
After Saddam repeated everything about Kuwait that we had heard earlier from Aziz, Belousov and I raised the question about our specialists. He responded instantly and definitely: All who wished could leave, but in the next two months the quota would be limited to 1,000, so as not to hamper work or halt the projects...
...last meeting between American and Iraqi officials. Flying to Baghdad at the end of December, Belousov tried to talk Saddam into holding a meeting with American representatives in Geneva, when President Bush's proposal for such a session already seemed to be blocked. The meeting between Baker and Aziz was held on Jan. 9, but it produced no results...
Shortly before Bush departed for the show, he had spoken with Mikhail Gorbachev, who reported that he and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz had agreed on terms for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, terms that would allow Saddam Hussein to preserve much of his military machine and political prestige...
...list of "criteria" by which the allies would judge whether an Iraqi withdrawal was unconditional and worthy of an allied cease-fire. The second was a single-page argument about why the Gorbachev-Aziz agreement was "unacceptable...