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...would grant none of these as preconditions to a pullout. The last two items, officials admitted, could be negotiated between Iraq and Kuwait after a withdrawal is complete. "Then the two countries can reach any agreement they want," said an Administration source. But any formal Iraq- Kuwait link is out of the question for Bush's camp. "That demand tells us that Saddam Hussein still doesn't get it," said a senior White House ; official. "We haven't yet convinced him that he can't hang on to Kuwait, not even indirectly." It was notable, however, that Baghdad's offers...
...troops landing in the desert to bolster the tiny Saudi army were American. The situation remained dangerously unstable. President Bush vowed not only to defend the Persian Gulf but also to force Saddam to disgorge Kuwait. Saddam formally annexed the Emir's kingdom, dropped all pretenses of a military pullout and called for a holy war to "burn the land under the feet of the aggressive invaders...
...commander of the Kiev military district, Lieut. General Gromov, 46, is one of the most famous and admired officers in the country. A major general at 39, a Hero of the Soviet Union, he served three tours in Afghanistan and was overall Soviet commander there from 1984 until the pullout last year. Typically, he was the last soldier to cross the bridge back into the U.S.S.R., in February 1989. There is no tradition of Bonapartism in Russian history, and Gromov denies rumors that he is contemplating a coup, but he says the army "cannot be kept outside politics." His political...
...final exit of the Indian forces has defused one of Sri Lanka's most combustible issues. But the pullout also created a power vacuum in the island's north and east that was quickly filled by the militants the Indians had been fighting, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have yet to renounce their goal of a separate state for the country's minority Tamils. For now, the separatists and the central government in Colombo are working in concert for peace, but their alliance is anything but stable...
...guerrillas who had turned Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with the occupiers gone and no political settlement in sight, the country is girding for further bloodshed. Most chilling is the possibility of the return of the Khmer Rouge, a force of some 25,000 guerrillas who now dismiss as "mistakes" the genocidal practices that provoked the Vietnamese to chase...