World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-03-01
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[0:00] Next, we'll see you back here [music] at
[0:01] 6.
[0:02] >> Stay with us
[0:05] >> from ABC. This is World News Tonight
[0:08] with Peter [music] Jennings.
[0:09] >> Good evening. President Bush said today
[0:11] he is now turning his attention to peace
[0:13] in the Middle East, and he wants to move
[0:15] fast. In Iraq and Kuwait, the war
[0:18] doesn't go away so quickly. Two more
[0:20] Americans have died as a result of
[0:21] mines. The overall US death toll is now
[0:24] 89, 10 more than the military reported
[0:27] yesterday. US commanders are still
[0:29] finding more Scud missiles in Iraq. And
[0:32] in Kuwait City today, as the US
[0:34] ambassador returns, further stories of
[0:36] life under Iraqi occupation. ABC's Jim
[0:39] Hickeyi is there.
[0:42] >> The new American ambassador raised the
[0:44] flag over the US embassy, the same flag
[0:47] that his predecessor, Nathaniel Howell,
[0:49] had carried out of the country when the
[0:51] embassy was vacated.
[0:54] Outside the embassy compound, another
[0:57] American flag. This one waved by
[0:59] Kuwaitis, their pro-American
[1:01] demonstrations intensifying by the day.
[1:04] But as their love of Americans
[1:06] increases,
[1:08] you thank you.
[1:10] >> So does their hatred of Iraqis. As
[1:12] stories of torture and murder become
[1:14] more and more public, three Iraqi
[1:17] soldiers today were captured at a
[1:18] roadblock manned by the Kuwaiti
[1:20] resistance.
[1:22] The Kuwaitis had to protect the soldiers
[1:24] from an angry crowd.
[1:29] >> Saddam is my shoe, this woman shouts. In
[1:32] the Arab culture, it is a terrible
[1:34] insult.
[1:36] >> In a nearby hospital, some of the
[1:38] reasons for the woman's outburst.
[1:40] Kuwaiti citizens lie wounded after what
[1:42] they said was torture by the Ir