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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL had planned to take a week off at his Washington home. He had scheduled the same thing before the invasion of Panama...
Moscow's hemming and hawing may also have been a plea for attention. There was a palpable sense of injured pride in Moscow when the U.S. ignored the Soviet view and launched its unilateral police action in the gulf. "The possibilities for joint action should have been given more consideration," said Soviet Middle East expert Igor Belyayev. Finally, however, the Soviets lost patience with Saddam. On Friday Gorbachev issued an ultimatum: Withdraw from Kuwait or face "additional measures" from the U.N. Since Saddam was clearly not giving in, the way was cleared for Soviet support of an international blockade...
...carrier-based planes would be refueled in air, six at a time, by KC-10 airborne tankers, and arrive over their targets ready to fight. In addition, the battleship Wisconsin is soon to sail directly into the gulf, where it will join the guided-missile ships of the Joint Task Force Middle East. They are all armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles that can hit targets in Iraq...
...root of the problem remains Natal province, where bloodletting between A.N.C. supporters and the largely Zulu following of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has claimed nearly 4,000 lives in the past few years. At a joint press conference with De Klerk last week, Mandela charged that police violence against blacks continues -- especially in Natal, where security forces allegedly collaborate with Buthelezi's Inkatha movement -- and complained that key elements of the police force may simply be outside the President's control. Buthelezi again called for a face-to-face meeting with Mandela, a development that many believe would cool...
...geopolitical map was being redrawn. China, the Soviet Union and the U.S. found themselves voting together on the Middle East, a subject that has bitterly divided them in the past. Moscow held open the possibility of joining a U.N. force against its ally Iraq. That could mean joint military action with the U.S., an unthinkable idea for the past 45 years. At the same time, the wider role that many in Washington would like to see NATO adopt got an unrehearsed trial run, with the U.S. relying heavily on Turkey to complete the economic asphyxiation of Iraq, its southeastern neighbor...