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      moderate Arab countries and Saudi Arabia. (New York Times, November 29, p. Al.)

         Senators Dole and Warner say President Bush is considering calling Congress back into session
      within the next ten days to consider the use of force in the `Persian Gulf. (New York Times, November
      29, p. Al4.)

         King Fahd of Saudi Arabia makes his strongest statement to date on Iraq saying that it will be a
      tragedy for Iraq if Saddam Hussein does not withdraw from Kuwait. (New York Times, November 29,
      p. Al4.)

      ---U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 677 condemning Iraq's attempts to change Kuwait's
      demographic composition and Iraq's destruction of Kuwait civil records. (`Nashington Post, November
      30, p. A23.)                                                                                    t

         Approximately 25 members of Marine Corps Reserve Military Police Platoon stationed in Dayton,
      Ohio have been called to active duty and are to report to Camp Pendleton. The unit specializes in graves
      registration. (Dayton Daily News, November 28, p. 5.)                                           1'

November 29
         Thursday--- U.N. Security Council, by a vote of 12-2 with one abstention, passes Resolution 678
      authorizing use of force by the U.S. and allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait if Saddam Hussein does not
      withdraw his forces by January 15, 1991. Cuba and Oman voted against the resolution while China
      abstained. This marks the second time in the history of the U.N. that force has been authorized to repeli
      aggression - the Korean War being the first. (New York Times, November 30, p. Al.)

         Hours before the U.N. Security Council vote, a defiant Saddam Hussein declares Iraq is ready for
      war against American led troops in the Persian Gulf. (New York Times, November 30, p. Al.)

         Dep<'irtment of Defense releases thirteenth list of U.S. Naval Reserve Selected Reserve units ordered
      to active duty involving approximawAy 437 Naval Reservists.  (CHINFO 300204Z NOV 90)

November 30
         Friday --- President Bush says he has invited Iraq's Foreign Minister to Washington and is ready to
      send Secretary of State Baker to Baghdad in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the Persian Gulf
      crisis. But he warns that if war comes he would never agree to any halfway effort. (New York Times,
      December 1, p. 1.)

         President Bush announces that Iraqi troops delivered fruit, vegetables and cigarettes to the U.S.
      Embassy in Kuwait on Friday and that they would be back shortly with more. (New York Times,
      December 1, p. 1.)


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