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  Desert Shield estimated to cost       Secretary of State Baker                 President Bush and President
  S 11. 3B for fiscal year 1991.        (SECSTATE) completes talks               Gorbachev reiterate their united
                                        with Egyptian President                  stand on the Persian Gulf
                                        Mubarak and Saudi King Fahd.             crisis. Iraq offers free oil to
                                        They agree that there will be            Third World countries that can
                                        no negotiation until Iraq                arrange their own shipping.
                                        withdraws.


  [            Sep 10

  Iran and Iraq have announced          Before a joint seesion of                Cost estimate for Operation
  plans to resume diplomatic            Congress, President Bush says:           Desert Shield increased from
  relations.                            "Iraq will not be permitted to           $ilB to $15B for fiscal year
                                        annex Kuwait. And that's not             1991.
                                        a threat; it's not a boast - it's
                                        just the way it's going to be."


               Sep 14                              Sep 16                               Sep 17

  Iraqi soldiers raid Canadian          U.N. passes Resolution 667               SECDEF fires Air Force Chief
  and European diplomatic               condemning Iraqi intrusions              of Staff for saying Baghdad
  compounds in Kuwait City and          into western embassies in                would be "flattened" in the
  briefly take three French             Kuwait.                                  event of an air attack on Iraq.
  diplomats.


  F            Sep 22                              Sep 23                               Sep 24

  The last flight evacuating            Saddam Hussein threatens to              Poll shows President Bush with
  westerners from Iraq and              destroy Middle East oil fields if        an overall support rating of
  Kuwait lands in London.               Iraq is "strangled" by U.N.              71 % and support for his
  1,000 westerners remain in            sanctions.                               handling of the Persian Gulf
  Iraq and Kuwait.                                                               crisis rating 75%.


               Sep 25

  The U.N. votes to extend the          The Emir of Kuwait, before               Defense officials and Congress
  anti-iraq boycott to aircraft         U.N., pleads for his country's           debate whether to call up
  (Resolution 670). Soviet              liberation. United States                combat reserve units. CIA
  Foreign Minister warns Iraq           officiais have told Israel that          reports that Iraq has developed
  that "war may break out. . any        any Iraqi attack on Israel would         biological weapons with
  moment."                              set off a vigorous Arnerican             delivery capability by early
                                        response.                                1992.

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