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Date International U.S. Political! Diplomatic Military

Oct 22 Administration sources claim Persian Gulf Troop
that U.S. policy makers are Deployments
gradually building up toward
a withdrawal ultw~ that NA~ON TROOPS
wouldbebackedbyathreat
of force. U.S. 200,000
U.S. plans to submit three Saudi Arabia 55,000
U.N. resolutions condemnmg Egypt 14,000
Iraq and tightening diplomatic France 13,000
pressure. Gulf~Cot)p. Coon. 10,000
U.S. official says that the Britain 9,500
theeat of terrorist attack has Kuwait 7,000
increased as teanis reportetlly Syria 4,000
are in place and preparing for Pakistan 4,000
attacks. Bangladesh 2,000
In San Francisco Morocco 1,700
approxintately 200 individuals Senegal 500
protest U.S. involveinent in Canada 450
the Middle East. Czechoslovakia 200
Totals 321,350

Oct 23 Despite opposition to placing Administration is considering
U.S. troops under foreign expanding American military
commanders, the forces in the Gulf beyond the
Administration indicates 240,000 troops already
willingness to do so if it stationed there.
results in greater U.N. Some combat units of the
involvement in Gulf crisis. Army National Guard are
upset that they have not been
activated when the active
units they train with were
shipped to Saudi Arabia.

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