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munitv." the president said.
Clinton said there was no evidence Saddam was withdrawing 80,000 troops massed at Kuwait's border, as he promised to the United Nations earlier yesterday. White House officials recalled that Iraq reneged on a pledge to retreat after invading Kuwait in 1990, instead pouring in more troops.
"Iraq announced that it will pull back its troops from the Kuwait border. But we're interested in facts, not promises, in deeds, not words," Clinton said. "And we have not yet seen evidence that Iraq's troops are in fact pulling back. We will be watching very closely to see that they do so."
"Our policy is clear. We will not allow Iraq to threaten its neighbors or to intimidate the United Nations as it ensures that Iraq never again possesses weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, the sanctions will be maintained until Iraq compiles with all relevant U.N. resolutions. That is the answer to Iraq's sanctions problem — full compliance, not reckless provocation."
Clinton spoke as 300 U.S. soldiers arrived in Kuwait city yesterday.
The new deployment means about 600 U.S. aircraft will be moving into the Gulf region over the coming days from various Air Force bases, including those in Germany and Italy. The list includes a dozen F-117 "Stealth" fighters and six B-52 long-range bombers.
Asenior Republican, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, praised Clinton's move. "He has sent very clear signals and has taken action," Lugar said. "The troops that are moving there are for real. They have had, many of them, experience already in the Gulf."
A chronology of events in the latest Gulf crisis:
Sept. 23 — CIA Director James Woolsey claims Iraq has hidden elements of its weapons programs, is building underground facilities to resume these programs and still harbors regional ambitions, particularly toward Kuwait.
Tension building in Middle East
Sept. 25 — Baghdad cuts government food rations for Iraq's 18 million people suffering severe hardship under U.N. sanctions. Rations were reportedly cut in half.
Sept. 28 — British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd opposes giving Iraq a target date for lifting sanctions.
Oct. 4 — Iraqi opposition radio calls on Iraqis to prepare for imminent overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Oct. 6 — Amid an increasingly hostile, anti-U.N. media campaign, Baghdad threatens to block long-term monitoring of its military programs.
Oct. 5 — Iraq claims 1 million people have perished because of sanctions, which were imposed in August 1990.
Oct. 7 — Iraqi opposition
reports that Saddam is moving the elite Republican Guard divisions south toward Kuwait. Baghdad denies that it plans to invade Kuwait again. But President Clinton dispatches aircraft carriers and warns Iraqis not to repeat past mistakes.
Oct. 9 — Kuwait moves the bulk of its 18,000-man army to the border. U.S. amphibious forces, with 2,000 Marines and a British frigate, arrive offshore of Kuwait. Baghdad accuses the West of trying to crush Iraq, claiming that sanctions subjected its people to injustices of unprecedented proportions. Clinton orders more forces to the Gulf, raising the total to 54,000 troops.
Oct. 8 — Clinton orders more U.S. forces, including 4,000 troops, to the Gulf, and he updated a list of targets for Tomahawk cruise missiles. U.N. Security Council warns Iraq that it is committed to protecting Kuwait.
Even while delivering a stern warning to Saddam, Clinton began his speech with positive news in Haiti, where coup leader Raoul Cedras resigned as military leader and pledged to leave his homeland.
Oct. 10 — The aircraft carrier George Washington arrives in the Red Sea, Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon announces that Iraqi soldiers would pull back from the Kuwaiti border, but Kuwait says it had no proof Iraqi troops were doing so.
Clinton said deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristrand would return to Haiti from Washington on
After dispatching about 20,000 American troops to Haiti, Clinton said, "Injust three weeks the level of violence is down, the parliament is back, refugees are returning from Guantanamo and now the military leaders are leaving."
Saturday to take back his rightful place.
U.S. troops head for Kuwait despite Iraqi claims of retreat
KUWAIT — Iraq declared an end to its menacing five-day buildup and said its troops were pulling back from the Kuwait border only hours after U.S. troops landed.
The Associated Press
But President Clinton said last night there had been no sign of an Iraqi pullback and that he was sending more than 350 U.S. military aircraft to the Persian Gulf.
"We will not allow Saddam Hussein to defy the will of the United States and the international community," Clinton said in a nationally televised address.
A senior Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Clinton ordered B-52 bombers and F-15E fighter jets to the Gulf. They are to come from various Air Force bases, including those in Germany and Italy.
The tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers sent to the border had revived memories of 1990, when Iraq seized oil-rich Kuwait. It was seven months before a U.S.-led coalition ousted the occupiers.
This time, Washington was determined to send a firm signal — invade Kuwait and the United States will respond. Washington began amassing a force of nearly 70,000 in the region, 54,000 already assigned plus 15,000 on standby.
The first contingent of 300 U.S. soldiers arrived in Kuwait City yesterday.
Hours later, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, said Iraqi forces would withdraw from the Kuwaiti border and "are already on the move." He said they would be sent to a site north of Basra.
In Baghdad, Foreign Minister Mohamed Saeed al-Sahhaf said troops would be deployed to "other locations in the rear" to finish military exercises.
He told the official Iraqi news agency the withdrawal was ordered in response to appeals from "friends" and "in view of the fact that the troops' presence might be used as a pretext to maintain sanctions."
The crushing U.N. sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. Iraq has aggressively sought to have the sanctions eased, particularly a 4-year-old oil embargo that has devastated the economy.
iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may have conceived the buildup as a warning that he could still cause trouble if the sanctions were not lifted.
Yesterday, Kuwait's information minister, Sheik Saul al-Sabah, said there was no evidence Iraq had begun pulling back any of the estimated 80,000 soldiers on the border. "We will believe it when we see it," he said.
Clinton said the sanctions will be maintained until Iraq complies with U.N. resolutions.
Pentagon officials have not said to what extent Iraq would have to pull back before the United States ended its buildup.
Earlier, Kuwait's crown prince told an emergency session of Parliament that Kuwaitis have nothing to fear with the Western forces arriving to counter the Iraqi buildup of forces.
"The military situation has changed a lot in Kuwait's favor, and it will continue doing so in the coming hours," said Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, who also is prime minister.
Thousands of civilians, meanwhile, remained camped near the Iraqi side of the frontier, apparently herded there by Bagdad, U.N. officials said.
Iraq maintained they were some of the tens of thousands of stateless Arabs who fled Kuwait or were expelled after the war for allegedly backing Iraq. Iraq claimed they were Iraqi soldiers dressed in civilian clothes.
Cedras to depart from Haiti; Aristide will return to power
Overjoyed citizens welcome change
The Associated Press
Cedras seemed small in the entrance way of the clapboard army headquarters as he announced he was resigning as military leader and quitting the country for its own good.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Raoul Cedras kept the people cowed for three years with his terror campaign. Yesterday, Haiti's masses rose up and drowned him out.
out the Haitian coup leader.
Cedras was dwarfed by crimson-bereted U.S. military commander Hugh Shelton, whose 19,500 soldiers played a large role in finally driving
The sound of 5,000 joyful people buried the tubas and trombones of Cedras' military band playing the national anthem with an impromptu version of "Auld Lang Syne."
Then Cedras' voice, which once dominated state media, faded amid an under-amplified sound system and the crowd's shouts of "Hoodlum!" and "Thief!"
Even his wife, Yannick, wearing designer eyeglasses and a green-and-white polka dot dress, wasn't paying attention during her husband's speech, instead trying to maintain a smile as she heard the verbal abuse from the crowd.
As a sort of final indignity, the camouflage-uniformed American troops had to protect Cedras, firing warning
shots when a rock-thrower shattered the windshield of his departing automobile. Haitians scrambled to pick up shards of the broken windshield as souvenirs.
"I have chosen to leave the country to protect you, so that my presence will not be a pretext for unjustified acts," Cedras told the crowd.
As a result of Lt. Gen. Cedrus' resignation, the final condition has been met by the Haitian military leadership to comply with the terms of the agreement former President Carter worked out only hours before a U.S. invasion was to begin.
Cedras is gone, so too is Brig. Gen.
Philippe Biamby, who resigned Saturday.
Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois escaped last week to the Dominican Republic.
Cedras gave no time or venue for his exile, but U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager listed Argentina, Panama, Spain and Venezuela as possible refuges. Schrager did not rule out the United States.
In a televised address last night, President Clinton said Cedras and Blamany would leave Haiti "shortly."
Yesterday Venezuela President Rafael Caldera rejected asylum for Cedras, his family and some colleagues. Former President Carter had asked Caldera to consider it, Venezuela's Foreign Ministry said.
Anticipating Cedras' departure, the crowd in Port-au-Prince continually shouted the name of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the man Cedras overthrew in September 1991. One man chimmed up a palm tree before Cedras,
Since U.S. troops arrived in Haiti three weeks ago, "the level of violence is down, the parliament is back, refugees are returning ... and now the military leaders are leaving," Clinton said. "But I also want to caution again, the job in Haiti remains difficult and dangerous. We still have a lot of work ahead of us."
waving an American flag with a photo of Aristide in its center.
Clinton confirmed that Aristide. Haiti's first freely elected president, will end his own exile and return home Saturday.
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