CBS Evening News - 1991-01-16 (Desert Storm)
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[0:04] [music]
[0:06] >> Saddam Hussein reportedly moving
[0:08] chemical weapons to his front lines.
[0:09] [music]
[0:10] The White House says war could come at
[0:12] any time. And the Allied war machine in
[0:15] the desert [music] awaits the word to
[0:17] go.
[0:21] This [music] is the CBS Evening News,
[0:23] Dan Rather reporting. Good evening.
[0:25] US forces are poised to strike at Iraq.
[0:29] It's the day after deadline. A flurry of
[0:31] activity tonight in Washington amid new
[0:33] indications, no conclusive evidence, but
[0:36] indications, that President Bush's order
[0:38] to use force against Saddam Hussein
[0:41] could come down at any moment if,
[0:43] indeed, it is not already been given.
[0:45] All of this comes amid new indications
[0:47] that Saddam Hussein may be trying to
[0:50] move chemical weapons within striking
[0:52] distance of US and Allied forces in the
[0:54] desert, and no indication Saddam has
[0:57] made any move to comply with UN orders
[0:59] to quit Kuwait or else.
[1:01] >> [snorts]
[1:02] >> On what may be a momentous evening for
[1:04] the United States, White House
[1:06] correspondent Wyatt Andrews begins our
[1:08] coverage. Wyatt?
[1:09] >> Dan, at this very moment, the White
[1:11] House is still playing its waiting game,
[1:13] a mind game, if you will, primarily to
[1:15] sow doubt in the mind of Saddam Hussein.
[1:18] However, just within a few hours ago,
[1:20] the President did place a telephone
[1:21] call, CBS News has learned, to House
[1:23] Speaker Thomas Foley on the Gulf. That
[1:26] set off a flurry of meetings up on
[1:28] Capitol Hill. We do not know exactly
[1:30] what the call was about, and we do not
[1:32] know if it will set off any flurry of
[1:33] meetings here. On the record, the White
[1:36] House is sa