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...Most people don't have a vested interest in this," said A. James Kent '93, adding that he was risking his academic standing to demonstrate for peace. "The people at Harvard don't really [care]." Kent said that the U.S. should not have sent troops to the Persian Gulf in the first place, and that war was unnecessary and "ridiculous...
...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...
...televised address at 9 p.m. tonight, President Bush said that the international coalition arrayed in the Persian Gulf had commenced an air attack to drive Iraqis forces out of Kuwait and to destroy Iraq's chemical weapons capability and nuclear potential...
Bush said "all reasonable efforts" to resolve the Persian Gulf by diplomacy had failed and that Iraqi President "Saddam Hussein met every overture of peace with contempt...
...also arrayed a total of 1350 warplanes and 108 Navy ships in the region. Two of the six American aircraft carriers in the region had entered the Persian Gulf last night, putting them within striking distance of targets in Iraq and Kuwait...