CBS Evening News - 1990-08-07
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[0:08] American warplanes and combat troops
[0:11] head for Saudi Arabia Saddam Hussein
[0:13] vows never to back off or back down and
[0:17] thousands of American civilians now at
[0:19] risk in the Middle East
[0:23] [Music]
[0:26] this is the CBS Evening News Dan Rather
[0:29] reporting night from Amman Jordan good
[0:32] evening
[0:33] the crisis in the Persian Gulf is
[0:36] escalating rapidly and dramatically
[0:38] tonight both sides are raising the
[0:40] stakes and raising the possibility of
[0:43] danger in a development first reported
[0:46] by CBS News correspondent David Martin
[0:47] President Bush has ordered what is
[0:50] called a major deployment of U.S
[0:53] warplanes and ground troops to Saudi
[0:55] Arabia several thousand U.S army
[0:58] soldiers plus
[1:00] f-16s and F-15 warplanes are being
[1:04] dispatched to Saudi Arabia the soldiers
[1:06] it is said are not intended to take on
[1:09] any combat-tested Iraqi Invaders of
[1:12] Kuwait it is said that they are going
[1:14] for the purpose to protect the air bases
[1:16] where the f-16s and the f-15s will be
[1:20] the soldiers are said to be part of a
[1:22] multinational Force which Washington
[1:24] hopes will eventually include Egyptian
[1:28] troops
[1:29] Iraq's president Saddam Hussein said
[1:31] today that Iraq would not be giving up
[1:34] control of Kuwait and vowed a quote
[1:38] fight to the death if necessary the
[1:41] puppet government he has installed in
[1:42] Kuwait today declared itself a republic
[1:44] that is declared Kuwait a republic and
[1:47] said that the deposed ruling Kuwaiti
[1:49] family is history our coverage of these
[1:53] dramatic and still escalating
[1:54] developments begins with David Martin
[1:57] Dan this afternoon the U.S began sending
[2:00] combat aircraft