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Article: LAST US FLIGHT EXITS IRAQ SAUDI ARABIA EXPELS JORDAN, YEMEN ENVOYS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 23, 1990
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AMMAN, Jordan - A flight described as the last US-chartered
airlift out of Iraq left Baghdad yesterday, and King Hussein of
Jordan called for an early withdrawal of US forces from the Persian
Gulf region to prevent "disastrous repercussions."
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq expressed new determination
to hang onto Kuwait, which his forces seized on Aug. 2.
Three high-ranking Jordanian officials including a Cabinet
minister, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saudi Arabia had
ordered the expulsion of nearly all of Jordan's envoys. Also,
diplomatic sources in Saudi Arabia said most Yemeni diplomats were
being sent home from Saudi Arabia.
However, King Hussein and the Jordanian ...