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...enough, though. By the time the President spoke, the deadline he had set in the Rose Garden ultimatum had expired 10 hours earlier. The interval had been filled with diplomatic flopping around that looked increasingly like playacting -- or simple stalling. Iraq had accepted, that morning in Moscow, a Soviet-brokered proposal for withdrawal that Baghdad and the Kremlin both knew the U.S. and its allies would not take. Vague hints emerged from a U.N. Security Council meeting, in progress as the deadline passed, that maybe the Iraqis would respond "positively" to the U.S. ultimatum. The hints came from the Soviet...
Originally the allies planned to have Bush, Major and French President Francois Mitterrand deliver a new allied ultimatum in simultaneous announcements in Washington, London and Paris. They decided, however, to let Bush speak for the alliance. Only minutes after one final phone call, to 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...
...demands. Moscow made another effort Friday afternoon and produced a six-point plan that set the 21- day timetable for withdrawal. It was too little too late. Gorbachev kept trying Saturday, phoning Bush and asking for a Security Council meeting in a futile effort to merge the U.S. ultimatum and the last Moscow proposal. But on Saturday afternoon Ignatenko, at a press conference, agreed with a questioner that Iraq had lost its chance to negotiate a peaceful settlement, and Soviet spokesmen appeared far more interested in soothing allied annoyance with Moscow's earlier efforts than in making any further attempts...
...discussion then turned to the question of "Do we make the date tomorrow night or Sunday or Monday or when?" Bush wanted it as soon as possible. So did Powell. Secretary of State James Baker cautioned that the U.S. ultimatum must have allied support and must be seen to allow a reasonable time for Iraqi acceptance. "The diplomatic question was the toughest," said a participant. "We had 28 partners, and the biggest concern was making sure we could get everybody on board...
President Bush and the allies yesterday gave Iraq 24 hours to begin a pullout from Kuwait or face a final all-out attack. The Iraqis denounced the "shameful" U.S. ultimatum and aligned themselves instead with a Soviet peace plan...