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Date International U.S. PoliticaliDiplomatic Military

Feb 12 Saddam Hussein announces Senator Simpson says Allies strike Iraqi armor,
willingness to work with reporters who go to Iraq to infantry and artillery in
Soviet Union to end war, but cover war are hurting allies Kuwait from air, land, and
vows to keep fighting until and can only be considered sea in what officials describe
aggressors are beaten back. sympathihers of Saddam as largest operation of the
Saudi Arabia to borrow Hussein. war.
billions of dollars from banks Officers on front say Iraqi
for war expenses. This desertions have become daily
marks first time Saudis have ritual along border; numbers
gone to financial markets steadily climbed in past few
since 1970s. days.
Yasir Arafat's support for
Saddam Hussein may end his
?ole as head of PLO.
Support for Arafat is
diminishing. Evidence
indicates Soviet military
advisers assisting Saddam
Hussein's forces in Iraq.
Germany to send 200 soldiers
to the Gulf despite
constitutional constraints on
the deployment of German
military forces. Germans
will work nuclear, biological,
and chemical reconnaissance
vehicles.
Soviets claim U.S. pilots
were successful in early days
of war due to intelligence
they provided on Soviet-
supplied anti-aircraft
weapons.

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