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...plan did show some improvements. Unlike all Iraqi statements since mid-August, it did not propose any form of linkage: no mention of Palestinians or Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights; no talk of a Middle East peace conference. It did not demand any pullout of allied forces from the gulf area, a key point in Baghdad's proposals less than a week earlier. And this time Iraq did agree to a prompt exchange of prisoners. But the plan still conspicuously failed even to mention some key allied concerns, notably restoration of the preinvasion Kuwaiti...
...specifics that were in the plan angered the allies. The main proposals were that Iraq would begin a withdrawal two days after a cease-fire. The pullout would be completed within a fixed period, but no specific time was initially mentioned. The pullout would be supervised by countries, to be selected by the U.N. Security Council, that had taken no part in the fighting. When it was two-thirds complete, the economic embargo against Iraq would be lifted. When it was fully complete, all 12 U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning Iraq and initiating steps against it would cease to have...
...anti-Saddam coalition, this plan appeared to be compounded about equally of holes and snares. To begin with, the allies have consistently opposed any formal cease-fire before, or for that matter during, an Iraqi pullout (though they would not attack the withdrawing troops). Saddam, they fear, would use any respite to rest, regroup and resupply his badly battered troops in Kuwait. He might then renege on the withdrawal agreement and resume...
...questions went: Who would be the supposed "neutrals" supervising the pullout? Cuba, Libya, Yemen, perhaps other bitterly anti- Western and pro-Saddam states? Would their presence mean allied forces would be barred from entering Kuwait in the wake of the retreating Iraqis? And what if Saddam invented some pretext to stop or reverse the withdrawal? Having agreed to a cease-fire, would the allies have to go back to the U.N. Security Council for fresh authority to attack the Iraqi troops, a move subject to Soviet or Chinese veto? The common element in all these suspicions is that...
...President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Bush stepped into the Rose Garden and in measured, determined tones set the Saturday noon deadline by which Saddam had to declare "publicly and authoritatively" that he accepted the allied terms, which spokesman Marlin Fitzwater spelled out shortly after. The time for a pullout was lengthened to a week because some allies thought the original 96 hours was simply impossible; Washington hoped seven days still was not enough time for Saddam to pull out all his tanks, other armor and artillery. Rather astonishingly, the allied firmness set off sympathetic reverberations in Moscow. Gorbachev spoke with...