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[              Jan2

NATO announces that                    President Bush proposes talks         Senate begins debate on Gulf
squadrons of Italian, Belgian,         in Geneva between SECSTAT~            situation. Iraq agrees to U.S.-
and German fighters will be            Baker and Iraqi Foreign               Iraqi talks on Jan 9.
sent to Turkey.                        Minister Aziz. 102nd
                                       Congress convenes. There are
                                       530,000 Iraqi troops in
                                       occupied Kuwait, 580,000
                                       multinational troops in the
                                       Gulf.


               Jan 5                              Jan 8                              Jan 9

President Bush says military           President Bush requests               Saddam Hussein says Iraq
action against Iraq will not           Congress to adopt a resolution        would not bow to America and
necessarily begin on Jan 15.           supporting the use of force           warned that United States
                                       against Iraq saying that such a       soldiers would "swim in their
                                       vote would send a message to          own blood." U.N. Secretary
                                       Saddam Hussein that                   General says he will visit
                                       Americans are united in their         Baghdad to perntade Saddam
                                       determination.                        Hussein to give up Kuwait and
                                                                             avert a Gulf war. Talks
                                                                             between SECSTATE and Iraqi
                                                                             Foreign Minister fail to reach
                                                                             agreement.


F              Jan 10                            Jan 11                              Jan 12

Congress debates whether to            United States military officials      Congress votes President Bush
authorize President Bush to use        say they believe Iraq has been        the authority to go to war.  The
force to drive Iraq out of             seeding Kuwaiti waters with           Senate approved by 52 to 47
Kuwait, or to wait for                 Iraqi mines that have begun           while the House approved by
sanctions to work.  CIA                floating into shipping channels.      250 to 183.
Director says that sanctions
alone will take at least a year
to force Iraq.to withdraw.


               Jan 13

U.N. Secretary General                 Iraqi parliament votes to follow      White House says it is reaching
emerges from talks with                Saddam Hussein into battle            a "point of decision" and
Saddam Hussein saying no               over the occupation of Kuwait.        officials are weighing exactly
progress was made on Iraqi                                                   when to give the attack order if
withdrawal.                                                                  Iraq does not concede.


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