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      November 15, p. A18.)

         For the fourth month in a row, Americans paid extraordinary attention to events in the Persian Gulf                                                                                                                             I
      according to the November Times Mirror News Interest Index - a monthly survey that measures public
      response to the news. A total of 62% of Amerieans paid close attention to news about the Persian Gulf.
      (~s Angeles Times, November 15, p. 18.)

         Department of Defense releases eleventh list of U.S. Naval Reserve Selected Reserve units ordered
      to active duty involving approximately 62 Naval Reservists.                                                                                                                                   (CHINFO   150040Z NOV 90)

         Guard and reserve unit personnel activated to support Operation Desert Shield as of 14 NOV:

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               (DOD Release 9 DEC 90)

November 15
         Thursday ---Iraq has invited a team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to
      verify that Iraq's small stock of highly enriched uranium has not been made into a nuclear weapon The
      uranium in question (27.6 lbs of 93 percent U-235                                                                                                                                        sufficient to make a small, crude ~om~~ was
      salvaged from Iraq's Osirak nuclear' reactor after it was destroyed by an Israeli air attack in 1981 (New
      York Times, November 16, p. Al.)

      ---U. S. Council of Churches unanimously approves a resolution rebuking President Bush's policy in
      the Persian Gdf. (New York Times, November 16, p. A13.)

         Soviet Union's chief Middle East negotiator counsels delay of military action against fraq in hopes
      of finding a face saving way for Saddam Hussein to get out of Kuwait, but says that military action may
      be necessary if peace initiative fails. (New York Times, November 16, p. Al.)

         Saddam Hussein says that he is ready for negotiations with the U.S. and his Arab neighbors, but
      refuses to withdraw from Kuwait prior to any such negotiations. (New York Times, November 16 ,p.
      A14.)

         Secretary of State Baker flies to Brussels to begin intensive, country-by-country discussions with the                                                                                                                          1
      other fourteen members of the U.N. Security Council to seek their support for military action to force
      Iraq out of Kuwait. (Washington Post, November 16, p. A2l.)

         U.S. and Saudi forces begin ~Imminent Thunder~ - an eight-day amphibious landing exercise in
      northeastern Saudi Arabia that involves about 1,000 U.S. Marines, 16 warships and more than 1,100
      aircraft. (New York Times, November 16, p. A13.)


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