IRAQ-KUWAIT: SITUATION REPORT #494 - POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS: SOVIETS EVACUATING

Created: 1/22/1991

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A Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman reported yestordaylarge group" of Soviet evacuees from Iraq had crossed the Iraq-Iran border and would fly to Moscow from Tehran today. On Sunday the Ministry announced that all remaining Soviet citizens for six Journalists, who refuse to leave, andmbassybe evacuated from Iraq. HXfTfH

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