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...Saddam is not offered anything that appeals to him, there is the real chance he will opt for a partial and unilateral pullout, yanking his forces back to the northern third of Kuwait, which he considers part of Iraq's Basra province. That would free up Kuwait's main population centers and oil fields but would leave four major oil patches, plus Kuwait's part of Rumaila -- which together account for about 10% of Kuwait's production -- under Saddam's control. While the U.S. and its allies could still invade to force Saddam all the way out, popular support...
...weary Lebanese greeted the pullout warily. Fighting between rebellious militias scuttled efforts to unify Beirut in 1976 and 1984. Asked a commentator on a Beirut radio station: "What guarantees do we really have that history won't repeat itself?" The answer may come during the next phase of the peace plan, which calls for the government to disband the rival militias and implement a system that would address the concerns of both Muslims and Christians...
...partial-pullout scenario contemplates Saddam retreating to the northern third of Kuwait, an area of few people but some oil. The Rumaila field, whose southern tip reaches into Kuwait, has long been a sore point for Baghdad. Saddam has accused Kuwait of slant drilling -- siphoning oil from the Iraqi portion of the field through equipment located in Kuwait, an allegation the Kuwaitis deny. "Do you want to know what would probably happen if Saddam retreated to that remote part of Kuwait?" asks a White House aide. "The coalition not only wouldn't go to war to drive Iraq...
...order to gain negotiations with Kuwait and progress toward an Arab-Israeli settlement. That spurred a prompt bid from Saddam Hussein for separate French-Iraqi negotiations, which Mitterrand righteously spurned. His government, meanwhile, hastened to assure allies that France still supported the U.N. resolutions calling for an unconditional Iraqi pullout...
...Soviet Union met each other not as cold war adversaries or even as wary rivals to make their competition more manageable, but as partners cooperating against a common enemy: Saddam. Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Helsinki fully agreed on their objective: an unconditional Iraqi pullout...