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...surprise when a majority of Arab states voted late last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed reservations and did not even vote...
Even in the fine points of his strategy, Saddam evoked echoes of the past. He excited his people with impassioned speeches full of grievances toward their neighbor. He exploited a border dispute, scheduled negotiating sessions that were intended all along to be fruitless, and cooked up a request for intervention by supposedly downtrodden locals. The invasion sequence itself was classic '30s: bluff, feint and grab...
...bailout's woes were glaringly evident last week, when the Administration notified Congress that $100 billion will be needed by October to keep the program from running out of cash. The news angered Administration critics who were stunned by the size of the request. The $100 billion installment includes $60 billion in bonds the RTC plans to repay from the sale of assets of seized thrifts. The remaining $40 billion will become part of the bailout's long-term cost...
...Secretary-General Subroto called Saddam's means "alarming." By threatening the overproducers, Saddam brought tensions in the Persian Gulf to their highest level since the Iran-Iraq war. So startled was the U.A.E. that it took the unprecedented step of asking the U.S. to conduct joint military maneuvers, a request Washington granted, sending two aerial refueling planes and six combat ships for the exercise. When Baghdad denounced this "imperialist plot," the Emirates, more shaken than ever, denied anything out of the ordinary had taken place...
...that the end of the Cold War has touched my life in a very real way. I no longer receive the mailboxes full of propaganda that I once did. My East German subscription to the Marxist Review has apparently been terminated, and I suppose I'll have to request a Radio Moscow program schedule if I want...