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...victory without firing a shot, while ensuring that this time Saddam stays put for good. It has not been easy. On Saturday, the U.S. had to negotiate carefully to avoid a Russian veto before winning a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Iraq withdraw its troops from the Kuwaiti border...
...Gulf War, when a U.N. mission led by the U.S. drove his troops out of Kuwait and kindled a holocaust of as many as 100,000 Iraqis. Last week Saddam gave hints he wanted a rematch, massing 64,000 troops, including two Republican Guard units, on the Kuwaiti border. "It's pretty much the same scenario that unfolded two weeks before he invaded Kuwait," noted a senior Clinton Administration official. "It's unlikely they could reach Kuwait City, but they could certainly get across the border...
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev renewed efforts to ease sanctions against Iraq, taking his plea to the United Nations. Kozyrev argued that the U.N., despite U.S. objections, should lift an oil embargo on Iraq by May in exchange for Saddam Hussein's recognition of Kuwaiti sovereignty. (He also said Russia had received advance information on last week's desert maneuvers and reports that "Iraq was not planning to attack Kuwait.") The U.S. response: U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said "Iraq must not be led to choose in an a la carte way" among U.N. conditions for lifting sanctions...
Even as Saddam talked peace, Pentagon officials were worried that his troops were dragging their feet in an apparent retreat from the Kuwaiti border: at least two Iraqi brigades reportedly stopped near the southern city of An Nasiriya. U.S. Marines, meanwhile, staged a practice landing in Kuwait. Defense Secretary William Perry said American troops could head home in a few weeks if all goes well...
...surer signs of retreat by Saddam Hussein's forces. This morning, Saudi Arabia and five smaller oil nations -- Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself -- began deploying much of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait, enough to match the number of U.S. forces now on Kuwaiti soil. Meanwhile, the U.S. operation's Central Command tells TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson that Iraq's forces are in close to full flight back north -- including what is believed to be the best of Saddam's once feared Republican Guard, the Hammurabi Division. The other Guard unit, he says...