04/24/1991
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"The date of the commencing of combatant activities in such zone is hereby designated as January 17, 1991."
"I am increasingly concerned."
"If he thought this brutal treatment of pilots is a way to muster world support, he is dead wrong."
"I would make the strongest appeal that these people be treated properly and that they be given the treatment that is accorded to them under the international conventions."