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Dec 3    Soviets report that 1,000 of    SECDEF tells Congress that      SECDBF raises the
         the 3,000 of its citizens still military action is the only     maximum number of military
         in Iraq will be allowed to      sure way to force Iraqi troops  reservists that can be ordered
         return home in the corning      to leave Kuwait.                to active duty in the Persian
         two or three weeks.                                             Gulf by 63,000 to total
         Baghdad says that 1,400 Iraqi                                   188,000. There are now
         children have died because of                                   96,834 members of the
         the shortage of medicine due                                    Army, Navy, Air Force,
         to the embargo.                                                 Marine Corps and Coast
         U.N. General Assembly                                           Guard Reserves on active
         overwhelmingly votes to                                         duty.
         condemn Iraq for human
         rights violations in Kuwait
         and agrees to monitor Iraq's

         behavior in Kuwait..............-..-..-.- -"-.--"-.""-.--....-. ---."---....-.---.. -


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