World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-12-17
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[0:17] On World News Tonight this Thursday,
[0:20] [Music]
[0:22] another heavy round of attacks against
[0:24] Iraq. What sort of damage is the US
[0:27] doing and how long will it go on? The
[0:30] impeachment debate in the House of
[0:32] Representatives will begin tomorrow. Why
[0:35] do the Republicans not trust Bill
[0:37] Clinton
[0:45] from ABC? This is World News Tonight
[0:48] with Peter Jennings reporting tonight
[0:50] from Washington. Good evening. We begin
[0:53] again tonight with the US campaign
[0:54] against Iraq and the congressional
[0:56] campaign against the president.
[0:58] Washington is consumed by these two
[1:00] issues tonight and everyone seems to
[1:02] agree that it's virtually impossible to
[1:04] keep them separate. The US is now in the
[1:06] middle of the most intense attack
[1:08] against Iraq since the bombing campaign
[1:10] which led off the Gulf War in 1991. And
[1:14] there has been, the Pentagon tells us,
[1:16] no opposition today. seen from here in
[1:19] Washington and from Baghdad. It is clear
[1:21] that the USA and to a small extent the
[1:23] British have been hitting a lot of
[1:25] targets. Though it is hard to judge
[1:27] whether the effort is having the desired
[1:29] effect. We're going to start in Baghdad.
[1:32] ABC's Bill Blakemore is there. Bill,
[1:34] good evening. A status report if you
[1:35] would.
[1:38] Peter, it's quiet here for the moment,
[1:41] but this second night of attacks here,
[1:43] at least in central Baghdad, though not
[1:45] as sustained, has been heav