Word: saudi
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Iraq's army overruns Kuwait. President Bush orders U.S. economic embargo against Iraq; West European and Japanese governments follow suit. U.N. Security Council orders worldwide embargo on trade with Iraq. Bush deploys U.S. combat troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia. Turkey cuts off exports from Iraqi oil pipeline through Turkish territory Britain joins multinational force in Persian Gulf. Iraq closes borders to foreigners, trapping thousands of Americans and other Westerners in Iraq and Kuwait. Twelve of 20 Arab League states vote to send all-Arab military force to Saudi defense...
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from territories it occupies. Bush calls up military reserves. Saddam offers to free all foreigners in Iraq and Kuwait if United States promises to withdraw its forces from Saudi Arabia and guarantee the trade embargo will be lifted. Iraq announces it has moved Western hostages to military installations to use as human shields. Iraq rings nine embassies in Kuwait with troops. U.N. Security Council authorizes military action to enforce economic embargo of Iraq. Baghdad declares Kuwait its 19th Province...
Meanwhile the anti-Saddam coalition continued to cover the Saudi sands with soldiers and bristling weaponry. The Saudi government belatedly distributed gas masks and evacuation maps to the country's citizens. NATO dispatched 42 jet fighters from Italy, Germany and Belgium to Turkey, which shares a 200- mile border with Iraq. Officially, the contingent's purpose is to help defend Turkey in the event of an Iraqi assault. But the airplanes could also reinforce the threat of a second front opening up in Iraq's north...
...showdown over that issue was surprisingly long in coming. Congress was in recess last August when Bush dispatched the first troops to Saudi Arabia, and the lawmakers had little to say in September and October when they were busy running for re-election. Only after the November elections, as Bush doubled U.S. troop strength and successfully pressed the U.N. to adopt its Jan. 15 ultimatum, did a few Senators and Representatives speak up. The urgency of participating in a major national decision finally came home last week as the 102nd Congress convened in Washington for the first time. Its members...
...antiwar movement appears to be growing steadily. Last fall the Military Families Support Network was born after University of Wisconsin professor Alex Molnar -- the father of a Marine in Saudi Arabia -- wrote an open antiwar letter to President Bush in the New York Times. The Network began a storefront operation in a Milwaukee suburb with one phone. Today the office has five phones, three computers, a fax machine, two full-time staffers -- and 4,000 member families...