CBS Evening News - 1991-02-18
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[0:02] [music]
[0:05] Iraq's foreign minister goes home with a
[0:07] gobber peace proposal. Two US warships
[0:11] hit by mines and American fighting
[0:13] forces are reported good to go.
[0:18] This [music] is the CBS Evening News.
[0:20] Dan Rather reporting live from Dharan,
[0:23] Saudi Arabia. Good evening. With
[0:25] American and Allied forces coiled and
[0:27] ready to spring now into a ground war,
[0:29] Mikail Gobchoff has sprung a peace
[0:32] offensive. Whether it will delay or
[0:34] deter President Bush's determination to
[0:37] smash Saddam Hussein's army is the
[0:39] question of the hour. Anthony Mason in
[0:41] Moscow has our first report.
[0:44] After only 17 hours on the ground in
[0:46] Moscow, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarakaziz
[0:49] headed back to Baghdad this afternoon,
[0:51] ready to consider the Soviets peace
[0:53] initiative. The Gorbachoff plan, as the
[0:56] Soviets are calling it, still insists on
[0:58] unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait.
[1:00] But according to a presidential
[1:02] spokesman, Gorbachoff is offering Saddam
[1:04] Hussein a settlement that will preserve
[1:06] Iraq's old borders and system of
[1:08] government. This man needs kind of a
[1:11] point to save his face and probably at
[1:14] this stage it is time to tell him that
[1:17] uh not he personally maybe will survive
[1:19] but his regime or his administration
[1:22] will survive.
[1:23] >> Gorbachev got down to business quickly
[1:25] this morning ordering the Kremlin
[1:27] meeting room closed at precisely 11:00
[1:32] and over the next 3 hours as [music] the
[1:33] Kremlin guard changed three times he
[1:36] laid out his plan. Afterwards, Aziz
[1:39] would not talk about details, but he was
[1:41] clearly interested.
[1:42] >> Well, I cannot elaborate no