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...Kuwait. Nonetheless, Bush persuaded Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu to join the boycott of Iraqi crude. "People are always giving Bush guff for his first-name strategy with world leaders," says an Administration official. "But then he calls Tokyo and gets Kaifu to go along with the oil embargo, a step that may not be in Japan's self-interest. To say we were surprised is to put it mildly." Equally impressive was the President's engineering of United Nations sanctions against Iraq -- a delicious irony given Bush's repeated swipes at Dukakis for naively believing...
Thus it came as a welcome surprise when a majority of Arab states voted late last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed...
SYRIA. Damascus' support of Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war had virtually consigned Syria to the role of regional pariah. Moscow's economic pullback from the region threatened only to deepen Syria's isolation. By honoring the U.N. embargo and casting its lot with the pan-Arab force, Syria aims to reintegrate into the Arab and international fold. President Hafez Assad has not taken a front role in the current drama, but he did issue an early condemnation of Iraq's action, warning that if other nations pursued a similar course, "the world would resemble a jungle...
...enforce the United Nations trade embargo, Britain, Canada, France and Australia are adding destroyers and frigates to their naval patrols, though only the British moved quickly to send men and planes. Whitehall ordered Tornado fighter-bombers and a squadron of Jaguar ground-attack jets to the gulf, along with Rapier ground-to-air missiles. If Saddam intends to invade Saudi Arabia, he will probably have to do it before those forces are in place. The military planner's rule of thumb is that to be successful, attackers must outnumber defenders by 3 to 1. When the U.S. deployment is added...
Even if Saddam finds someone to sell to him, he will soon run out of cash for supplies if the boycott of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil continues to hold. By week's end the embargo was nearly 100% complete, choking off all exports from both countries...