World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-03-05
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[0:00] 6:00 report
[0:03] >> from ABC. This is World News Tonight
[0:06] with Peter Jennings.
[0:07] >> Good evening. First in and first out. We
[0:10] begin with that particularly familiar
[0:12] phrase for anyone who has family in the
[0:14] Persian Gulf. The Pentagon said today
[0:16] the first troops will be coming home on
[0:18] Thursday. And the 82nd Airborne Division
[0:21] was the first to go only 7 days after
[0:24] the Iraqis invaded Kuwait in August. In
[0:27] Iraq today, 15 other Americans got the
[0:29] word that they will be on their way home
[0:31] just as soon as the weather makes it
[0:32] possible to fly. They were prisoners of
[0:35] war. 15 Americans among 35 allied
[0:38] prisoners handed over to the
[0:40] International Committee of the Red Cross
[0:42] by the Iraqis. The Iraqis say there are
[0:44] no others. Saddam Hussein was on
[0:47] television again tonight, though not a
[0:49] very good picture, to say that the
[0:51] government is going to increase the
[0:52] sugar and baby milk rations. popular
[0:55] gestures after a war that has cut so
[0:57] deep and when Saddam Hussein as leader
[1:00] is so under siege. Here's ABC's John
[1:03] Mcci.
[1:05] >> Those who escaped Iraq today were still
[1:07] describing fighting in the streets. A
[1:10] revolution underway to get rid of Saddam
[1:12] Hussein.
[1:13] >> A revolution is going there.
[1:15] >> This now the revolution.
[1:16] >> Yeah, there's a lot of fighting.
[1:18] >> Yeah, a lot of fighting.
[1:19] >> Saddam Hussein
[1:22] >> finish. But as the US government
[1:24] assessed satellite photographs and
[1:26] communications intercepts from southern
[1:28] Iraq, a starkly different picture was
[1:31] emerging. While there has been violent
[1:33] anti-government unrest in at least nine
[1:35] Iraqi c