GULF WATCH: Day 110 : A daily briefing paper on developments in the crisis : Military Front:
Iraq said it will pour 250,000 more troops into Kuwait, bringing total Iraqi deployment in and near the occupied emirate to about 680,000.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, ordered to active duty more than 20,000 National Guard and Reserve combat troops; the Marine Corps said it called up 6,496 more combat reservists for likely deployment to Saudi Arabia.
Rough seas forced the cancellation of a landing exercise using Hovercraft on a beach in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Diplomatic Front:
President Bush attempted to win more support for a U.N. resolution authorizing an attack to drive Iraq from Kuwait. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev declined to endorse the idea.
A meeting in Paris between Bush and King Hussein of Jordan was indefinitely postponed. A Jordanian source said Bush put off the meeting because the king criticized Bush’s gulf policy.
Hostage Front:
About 75 Americans who had been held as “guests” of Iraq arrived in Washington.
Meanwhile, State Department officials said they will hold a series of meetings across the country to answer questions from families of the hundreds of Americans still being held in Iraq.
The Iraqi Military Machine:
* Total Iraqi forces: 1,035,000
* Iraqi forces in/near Kuwait: 430,000
* Total Iraqi tanks: 5,500
* Iraqi tanks in/near Kuwait: 4,800
* Total Iraqi artillery pieces: 3,500
* Artillery pieces in/near Kuwait: 2,450
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