Iraq Offers Deal to Quit Kuwait, US Rejects It, But Stays ‘Interested’

By Knut Royce, Newsday, January 3, 1991 Iraq has offered to withdraw from Kuwait if the United States pledges not to attack as soldiers are pulled out, if foreign troops leave the region, and if there is agreement on the Palestinian problem and on the banning of all weapons of mass destruction in the region, U.S. officials disclosed yesterday. Although the White House immediately dismissed the proposal as inadequate since it contains preconditions for a pullout, other government officials...

Nye Committee Report, 1936

Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry FINDINGS I. NATURE OF THE MUNITIONS COMPANIES The committee finds, under the head of "the nature of the industrial and commercial organizations engaged in the manufacture of or traffic in arms, ammunitions, or other implements of war" that almost none of the munitions companies in this country confine themselves exclusively to the manufacture of military materials. Great numbers of the largest suppliers to the Army and...