This number is smaller than it was until recently insofar as, according to a UPI report on 12 August 1990, Iraq is allowing some 7, 830 Soviet citizens in Iraq and 880 Soviets in Kuwait to leave via the Jordanian border in stark contrast to the de facto incarceration of Western citizens, now dubbed "restrictees, " in Iraq and Kuwait.

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This number is smaller than it was until recently insofar as, according to a UPI report on 12 August 1990, Iraq is allowing some 7, 830 Soviet citizens in Iraq and 880 Soviets in Kuwait to leave via the Jordanian border -- in stark contrast to the de facto incarceration of Western citizens, now dubbed "restrictees, " in Iraq and Kuwait.

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