World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-17

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[0:00] on channel 2 news

[0:02] >> from ABC News. This is World News

[0:06] Sunday. Tonight, reporting from Moscow,

[0:09] here's Diane Sawyer.

[0:10] >> Good evening from Red Square in Moscow.

[0:13] The war in the Gulf continued without

[0:15] pause today as the allies pounded Iraqi

[0:17] army positions and new skirmishes broke

[0:20] out along the Kuwait Saudi border. Even

[0:23] so, the eyes of the world have turned

[0:24] here toward Moscow tonight. The Iraqi

[0:27] foreign minister is here for a talk

[0:29] tomorrow with the Soviet president. And

[0:32] those talks between Tarakaziz and Mikail

[0:34] Gorbachof could be the best, if not

[0:36] final, hope for avoiding a costly ground

[0:39] war in the Gulf. A ground war some of

[0:41] the allies clearly believe is imminent.

[0:44] We begin with ABC's Moscow bureau chief

[0:46] Jim Laurier.

[0:48] The Soviet foreign minister, Alexander

[0:50] Bismeik, was on hand to meet Tarakaziz

[0:52] for a visit seen here as a last chance

[0:55] to explore just how serious Iraq is

[0:57] about wanting peace. Moscow will seek

[1:00] clarification of the conditions Iraq has

[1:02] placed on its withdrawal from Kuwait,

[1:05] looking for a further softening of the

[1:07] Iraqi line. The last time Terra Kaziz

[1:10] was here, President Gorbachoff warned

[1:12] him if Baghdad did not back down, the UN

[1:15] Security Council would authorize the use

[1:17] of force. This time, he'll tell him a

[1:20] Kuwaiti withdrawal must begin without

[1:22] conditions.

[1:24] Moscow's Baghdad envoy Primikov today

[1:28] called attention to the Iraqi UN

[1:30] ambassador's view that Baghdad is not

[1:32] insisting on preconditions, merely

[1:34] talking points, urging flexibility on

[1:37] both sides. Primikov sees the Iraqis as

[1:40] wanti