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     obligation.(New York Times, November 26, p. Al3.)

       Guard and reserve unit personnel activated to support Operation Desert Shield as of 25 NOV:

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                     (DOD Release 9 DEC 90)

November 26
       Monday --- Draft of U.N. Security Council resolution worked out by the five permanent members
     of the Security Council allows Iraq one final chance to pull its troops out of Kuwait by mid-January or
     else face the possibility of a military conflict with the allied forces in the Persian Gulf. (New York
     Times, November 27, p. Al.)

       The Soviet Union demands that Iraq release 3,000 Soviet citizens stranded in Iraq, charging for the
     first time that Baghdad is preventing them from leaving. (New York Times, November 27, p. Al.)

       U.S. military and intelligence specialists say that Iraq has stepped up its efforts to ensure heavy
     casualties if there is any attack on Kuwait or Iraq. Most recent Pentagon estimates are that several
     thousand Americans would die and many times that number would be wounded in a several week
     campaign against Iraq. (New York Times, November 27, p. A16.)

       U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Watkins says that worldwide supplies of oil have recovered
     to the point where not even an outbreak of war in the Persian Gulf would justify another sharp price
     increase. (Washington Post, November 27, p. A16.)

November 27
       Tuesday--- Senate Democrats urge President Bush to delay taidrig mIlitary action and give economic
     sanctions more time to work. (New York Times, November 28, p. Al.)

       Iraq's Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, dismisses importance of expected U.N. resolution authorizing
     force and says that Iraq will never succumb to pressure to get out of Kuwait. (New York Times,
     November 28, p. Al4.)

       International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors say that Iraq's highly enriched reactor fuel has not
     been made into a nuclear weapon. Iraq has 27.6 lbs of 93 weight percent U-235 reactor fuel - enough
     to make a crude nuclear weapon - that was salvaged from the Osirak reactor when it was bombed by
     the Israeli's in 1981. (New York Times, November 28, p. Al4.)

November 28
       Wednesday --- Two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral W. J. Crowe and General
     D. Jones urge Bush Administration to give the economic sanctions a year or more to work. Admiral
     Crowe says that if sanctions work in 12 to 18 months instead of six months, the trade-off of avoiding


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