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      23, p. A29.)

         State Department states that without war Iraq can get by for three to six months under
      embargo. (Washington Times, August 24, p. 8.)

         Secretary of Defense Cheney authoriws recall of 49,703 Reservists. (Washington
      Post, August 24, p. Al.)

         Center for Naval Analysis paper contends that reserves will play an ever-increasing
      role as Operation Desert Shield progresses.  (Naval Logistics Considerations     For
      Operation Desert Shie[d  Center for Naval Analysis, 23 August 1990.)

         Federal Office of Personnel Management asks federal departments and agencies to
      ease the financial burden on federal workers called to active duty from the reserve by
      paying the employees' share of medical insurance costs for a year and by keeping their
      specific jobs open until they return from mIlitary duty. (Washington Post, August 24, p.
      A32.)

August 24
         Friday ---Iraq perinits Rev. Jesse Jackson to visit as a television journalist.
      (Washington Times  August 24, p. 9.)

         Iraq's elite Republican guards are replaced by other troops in the front lines
      in Kuwait. (Defense Dialog, August 24, p. 8.)

         Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell warns Iraqi
      President Hussein "...Don't try to seare us or threaten us. It won't work, never
      has..."  ~~n~ton Post, August 25, p. 1.)

         Joint Chiefs of Staff urge that any military action be sweeping and lethal,
      designed not only to crush Iraq's huge war-making capacity but also to destroy
      Hussein and his command structure. Secretary of Defense Cheney makes first
      explicit comments threatening to destroy targets within Iraq if Hussein attacks
      U.S. troops. (Los Angel-es Times, August 25, p. 1.)

         Two U.S. F-iS Fagles are fired upon by Iraqi MiGs. U.S. does not fire back since
      U.S. was only testing Iraqi air defense and wanted to see what they would do.
      (Washington Times, August 25, p. 1.)

         Soviets tell Mr. Hummadi that "Iraq should change drastically the policy which it is
      pursuing now."   Soviets also hit out at Iraq's "inhumane" policy of "holding foreign
      nationals against their will". (Washington Times, August 25, p. 1.)


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