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...panic buying as war began, gave the go- ahead to tap their emergency petroleum supplies. President Bush authorized the month-long sale of 1.1 million bbl. a day from the 585 million-bbl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is stored in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. The drawdown will provide some 6% of the U.S.'s daily consumption of 17 million...
Preventing a Repeat. Whatever other trade-offs might be struck, the U.S. and its allies could press Saddam for concessions on his military capabilities: a drawdown of his troops, destruction of his chemical and biological weapons, inspection of his nuclear facilities to ensure that he is not building a bomb. Washington's position is that these measures could be enforced through a treaty. But, notes a senior British diplomat, "that is a hell of a difficult proposition." Such compromises would be extremely hard to win from Saddam through any means but a military defeat...
...most important speech ever delivered before the U. N. General Assembly, Gorbachev put on a bravura performance of what he calls new political thinking and set an agenda for a post-cold-war world order. He proclaimed a benevolent decimation of the Soviet armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated not just caution but skepticism, with lots of grumbling about...
...Whenever governments take money from the military, there is always grumbling. What President Gorbachev is proposing, with your support, is a drawdown of the military. Will the armed forces be happy about having some of their toys taken away...
...avoid the "bean-counting" disputes over troop numbers that have stalled conventional cuts for years, the NATO ministers agreed to seek more verifiable limits on the firepower of both sides. In tanks, for example, they proposed a cap of 20,000, which would require a Warsaw Pact drawdown of 31,500 and a NATO retirement of only 2,000. Within these totals, NATO asked for sublimits for each nation; the Soviets could retain no more than 12,000 tanks of the 37,000 they now deploy in the region...