US, IRAQ HINT READINESS TO SEEK ACCORD BUT SADDAM HUSSEIN WARNS CHANCE OF WAR IS STILL '50-50'

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: December 3, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

WASHINGTON - Top US and Iraqi officials, while reaffirming their stark differences, hinted yesterday that they are ready to use direct talks between the two nations to search for a peaceful solution to the Persian Gulf crisis.

In separate television interviews here and in France, the officials made a series of tentative gestures that are being interpreted as signals that both sides are looking for a way out of the four-month-old crisis.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in an interview aired yesterday on the French network Antenne 2, still rated the chance of war as "50-50." And as if ...

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