The relevant section seems to be NOTE: ON THE BORDER QUESTION, SADDAM REFERRED TO THE 1961 AGREEMENT AND A "LINE OF PATROL" IT HAD ESTABLISHED. THE KUWAITIS, H

The relevant section seems to be NOTE: ON THE BORDER QUESTION, SADDAM REFERRED TO THE 1961 AGREEMENT AND A "LINE OF PATROL" IT HAD ESTABLISHED. THE KUWAITIS, HE SAID, HAD TOLD MUBARAK IRAQ WAS 20 KILOMETERS "IN FRONT" OF THIS LINE. THE AMBASSADOR SAID THAT SHE HAD SERVED IN KUWAIT 20 YEARS BEFORE; THEN, AS NOW, WE TOOK NO POSITION ON THESE ARAB AFFAIRS. Which I suppose can be read as the US taking no position on Iraq-Kuwait affairs at all, but given the context it seems to me to refer only to the statement by the Kuwaitis to Mubarak that Iraqi troops were too close to the border. If Saddam is asserting this is a lie, then the US response may only refer to the US not taking a position on these statements. Or, to conclude, I would really like to hear confirmation or refutation by someone more familiar with the history or with experience in diplomatic matters.