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<text id=90TT3130>
<title>
Nov. 19, 1990: The Envelope, Please
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 19, 1990 The Untouchables
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 29
The Envelope, Please
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<p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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<p> To what, exactly, has the U.S. committed itself in Saudi
Arabia? In an Aug. 9 letter informing Congress of his decision
to deploy troops in Saudi Arabia, President Bush referred to
"requests" from King Fahd and Kuwait; some three months later,
the Administration is still not telling anyone, including the
Senate or the House, the nature of the U.S. response. This
refusal risks violating the Case-Zablocki Act of 1972, which
requires the Secretary of State to submit to Congress within 60
days the substance of all international accords, written or
oral. A year ago, failure to do so would have raised the threat
of a funding cutoff, but that provision of the act was
inadvertently allowed to lapse this year. The Senate Foreign
Relations Committee plans to put this stricture back on the
books next year. In the meantime, it has been negotiating with
the White House for a look at the Saudi agreements, so far
without success.
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