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...included 400 women. Though women are outnumbered by men more than 10 to 1, the size of the female crew met the Navy's critical mass for shipwide alterations -- to everything from bunks to "heads," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. He notes the mission, this time to the Persian Gulf, took two years to get under way after Congress lifted the ban on women's serving aboard warships...
...determined to keep that from happening. The Pentagon, in its sternest tones, announced that 4,000 U.S. troops would immediately be dispatched to Kuwait to beef up forces already in the area. The carrier U.S.S. George Washington and a clutch of cruise missile-carrying warships were moved into the Persian Gulf. Secretary of State Warren Christopher added a Kuwait stop to his Middle East tour this week to reaffirm U.S. support for the beleaguered emirate. And to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that may have led to the Gulf War, Bill Clinton issued a clear warning to Saddam: "It would...
Massed troops in southern Iraq fueled speculation that Saddam Hussein was preparing to reinvade Kuwait. The U.S. responded swiftly, ordering 4,000 Army troops from Georgia to Kuwait and dispatching the aircraft carrier George Washington to the Persian Gulf region. In London the British Defense Ministry announced that it was sending an extra frigate to patrol the waters off Kuwait. But the Baghdad government defended Iraq's right to move troops within its own borders, and there were no signs of panic in Kuwait...
Still, not all students approved of the dispatch of troops to the Persian Gulf...
Thousands of U.S. troops continued to stream into the Persian Gulf region, despite 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...