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Date International U.S. PoliticaliDiplomatic Military
Jan 20 Iraqi President Saddam Army is calling up 20,000
Hussein seeks to rally Arab members of the Individual
supporters by saying his Ready Reserve. This is the
forces have weaponry to fight first time since the Vietnam
and win. Iraqi TV broadcasts War that members of the
intenriews with seven men it IRRhavebeenordered to
identifies as downed allied active duty and the largest
pilots. Palestinian spirits call-up since the Korean
have been buoyed by the War.
launch of Scud nsissiles Patiiot nsissiles intercept
against Israel. Scud missiles at Riyadh,
Dhahan and other sites in
eastern Saudi Arabia.
Total sorties has risen to
7,000. Fifteen Iraqi aircraft
have been destroyed. Eight
American aircraft have been
lost. Nineteen floating
contact mines have been
found. There have been
6,968 intercepts of merchant
shipping made and 830
) boardings by the multi-
national naval force.
Guard and Reserve unit
personnel activated to
support Operation Desert
Shield/Storm as of 20
January total 163,753.
Jan 21 Five days into the air war has Poll finds 84% approving of Nine surface to surface
weakened Iraq but has not his overall performance while missiles were fired by Iraq at
eliminated Iraq's ability to 78% say the U.S. was right Riyadh and Dhahran. Eight
wage war. Iraq announces it to attack Iraq. 20% say they of the Scuds were intercepted
has dispersed captured allied think the war will be over in and destroyed by Patriot
airmen among selected targets a few weeks. missiles while the ninth fell
in order to deter allied air President officially designates into the Persian Gulf.
attacks against these facilities. the Persian Gulf as a combat Nearly 27,000 women are
zone. among the 460,000 American
service personnel in the
Persian Gulf.
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