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Baker filled his cup in the Middle East: he got a Saudi commitment to pay almost all "in-country costs" (transportation, water, fuel) of maintaining the U.S. forces defending the kingdom, and a pledge from the Kuwaiti government in exile to kick in an additional $5 billion, at least half of which would go to Desert Shield. Britain, though financially strapped, promised a further contribution in the form of additional troops rather than cash. Japanese officials told Brady they would put up more than the $1 billion they had pledged but did not specify an amount. West Germany, which...
...Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait. If Saddam Hussein agrees to evacuate, I will be the first to call for all foreign forces to leave the region. Then we shall replace them with Arab troops. Once the Kuwaiti government is restored, the problems between Iraq and Kuwait can be resolved in negotiations...
...least some of them came from Iraq's Foreign Ministry. The most recent feelers added up to an offer of withdrawal from Kuwait and release of all foreign nationals in return for several concessions: federation or some other close association between Kuwait and Iraq; guaranteed Iraqi access to the Kuwaiti islands of Bubiyan and Warbah, which block most of Iraq's scant 18 miles of Persian Gulf shoreline; and settlement of Iraq's claims regarding pumping rights in the Rumaila oil field, which lies mostly in Iraq but dips slightly into Kuwait...
...military reprisals." His fellow columnist at the Times, William Safire, even offers a game plan: "Our declared-war strategy should be to (1) suppress Iraqi air defenses; (2) take out war production at the 26 key targets; (3) launch a three-front land war at the Turkish, Syrian and Kuwaiti borders . . . Our great danger is delay." A Wall Street Journal editorial writer daydreams: "If we take Baghdad and install a MacArthur regency, that is the optimum...
Even the most pessimistic forecasters were cheered when OPEC decided last week to allow its 13 members to increase production to make up the shortfall of roughly 4.6 million bbl. a day lost in the U.N.-mandated embargo on Iraqi and Kuwaiti crude. In the wake of the cartel's action -- Iraq and Libya did not attend the meeting in Vienna -- petroleum prices dropped about $2 in one day, to $26 per bbl. Toward week's end, however, traders began fretting once again about a possible gulf confrontation and a disruption in energy supplies; with that, the price for October...