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Iraq says it will pour 250,000 more troops into Kuwait. U.S. Army and Marine Corps announce call-ups of 26,625 reserves. Bush, in Mideast, meets Egypt's President Mubarak and Syria's President Assad on the crisis. Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on Bush's gulf policy U.N. Security Council votes 12-2 to give Iraq until Jan. 15 to pull its troops out of Kuwait, after which United States and its allies are free to use military force. Bush says he is willing to send Baker to Baghdad in effort to end gulf crisis...
...First Baptist Church of Olympia, Wash., added prayer services today and tomorrow. Yesterday morning, the Rev. Robert Reid stood at the pulpit and waved the church bulletin, which contained a list of prayer requests for family and friends in the Mideast. There were 23 names listed...
...Harkin, have filed a suit against Bush that would require him to seek Congressional authorization before starting any military action in the Gulf. In these few crucial weeks before the U.N. resolution's January 15 target date for military action, all members of Congress should assert their voices on Mideast policy and demand that Bush acknowledge Congress' war powers...
...United States faces a critical turning point in the short history of the Mideast crisis. On Thursday, as the first of 200,000 additional troops called into service by President Bush three weeks ago began arriving in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations Security Council passed by a vote of 12 to two a resolution authorizing "member states cooperating with the government of Kuwait...to use all necessary means" to enforce the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait after January 15. It was a gesture of unanimity unprecedented in the Council's 45-year history...
...council vote theoretically indicates the readiness of other major powers such as the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom to join in a military action against Iraq. But it is is generally understood as expressing the willingness of these powers to allow the United States to deploy its sizeable Mideast force directly against Iraqi positions...