CBS Evening News - 1990-11-16
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[0:03] After a 100 days in the desert,
[0:05] America's challenge to Saddam Hussein
[0:07] heads into a critical turning point.
[0:09] [music]
[0:13] This is the CBS [music] Evening News.
[0:15] Dan Rather reporting tonight with US
[0:16] forces around the Persian Gulf. Good
[0:18] evening. US and Saudi military officials
[0:21] kept a lid of secrecy today on Operation
[0:24] Imminent Thunder in the Persian Gulf.
[0:26] 100 days into the biggest US military
[0:29] buildup since Vietnam, this marks a
[0:31] turning point. The first major military
[0:34] exercise to involve both US and Saudi
[0:36] troops and the first to take place
[0:38] within the Gulf itself. What is
[0:40] described as a mock assault by air, sea,
[0:43] and land along the Saudi coast with the
[0:46] thunder meant to be heard less than 100
[0:49] miles up the coast in Iraqi occupied
[0:51] Kuwait. In Washington, at the UN, and in
[0:54] Europe, President Bush and his aids
[0:56] renewed their campaign to get
[0:58] international support for the threat of
[1:00] imminent force against Iraq. Saddam
[1:02] Hussein countered by closing off the
[1:04] trickle of American hostages who've been
[1:06] coming out of Iraq. Correspondent Alan
[1:08] Pizzy Baghdad begins our report.
[1:11] >> A 100 days into the Gulf crisis, there
[1:13] are two kinds of hostages in Iraq.
[1:16] Ordinary citizens and American and other
[1:18] Westerners, all learning to cope. We'd
[1:21] like to let the people in America know
[1:23] that uh
[1:26] we're we're coping with these uh
[1:30] with these uh situations and hanging in
[1:34] there.
[1:36] Iraqis are trapped in the tunnel vision
[1:38] of a dictator bent on reshaping the Arab
[1:40] world. The people cannot change anything
[1:43] here, so they labor on making goods t