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SJsCSTATE tells the Senate              Saddam Hussein ends ten days           The U.N. passes Resolution
Foreign Relations Committee             of gasoline rationing and              674 which increases pressure
that President Bush does not            dismisses his oil Minister.            on Iraq to pull out of Kuwait.
want to seek congressional              Congress passes a $15.5B               The Administration explicitly
approval before taking military         foreign aid bill including a           warns Saddam Hussein that if
action in the Gulf. CIA                 provision sought by President          Iraqi forces do not leave
Director states that the area           Bush to forgive $6.7B of               Kuwait, the United States
will never be secure as long as         Egypt's debt.                          would not shrrnk from the use
Saddam Hussein reniains in                                                     of force.
power and controls weapons.


                Oct 30                               Nov 1                             Nov 4

President Bush tells                    President Bush compares                The Pentagon decides to call up
congressional leaders that he is        Saddam Hussein to Adolf                thousands of combat reservists
growing impatient with the              Hitler, saying Hitler did not          following Congressional
"barbarous" treatment of                respect much but at least he did       approval of a 360




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