CBS Evening News - 1991-01-16
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[0:06] Saddam Hussein reportedly moving
[0:08] chemical weapons to his front lines. The
[0:10] White House says war could come at any
[0:13] time. And the Allied war machine in the
[0:15] desert awaits the word to go.
[0:21] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:24] reporting. Good evening. US forces are
[0:27] poised to strike at Iraq. It's the day
[0:29] after deadline. A flurry of activity
[0:32] tonight in Washington amid new
[0:34] indications, no conclusive evidence, but
[0:36] indications that President Bush's order
[0:39] to use force against Saddam Hussein
[0:41] could come down at any moment if indeed
[0:43] it has not already been given. All of
[0:46] this comes amid new indications that
[0:48] Saddam Hussein may be trying to move
[0:50] chemical weapons within striking
[0:52] distance of US and allied forces in the
[0:54] desert and no indication Saddam has made
[0:57] any move to comply with UN orders to
[1:00] quit Kuwait or else. On what may be a
[1:03] momentous evening for the United States,
[1:05] White House correspondent Wyatt Andrews
[1:07] begins our coverage. Wyatt. Dan, at this
[1:10] very moment, the White House is still
[1:12] playing its waiting game, a mind game,
[1:14] if you will, primarily to sew doubt in
[1:16] the mind of Saddam Hussein. However,
[1:19] just within a few hours ago, the
[1:20] president did place a telephone call,
[1:22] CBS News has learned, a House Speaker
[1:24] Thomas Foley on the Gulf that set off a
[1:27] flurry of meetings up on Capitol Hill.
[1:29] We do not know exactly what the call was
[1:31] about, and we do not know if it will set
[1:33] off any flurry of meetings here. On the
[1:35] record, the White House is saying that
[1:37] the president is quote unquote
[1:38] approachi