CBS Evening News - 1994-10-20
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[0:03] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:08] with Dan Rather and Connie Chum.
[0:12] Good evening. Dan is on assignment.
[0:15] President Clinton has drawn a new line
[0:17] in the sand for Saddam Hussein. US
[0:20] diplomats today served a formal warning
[0:22] to Iraq to keep its army away from
[0:25] Kuwait or face the consequences. At the
[0:28] same time, the US military is slowing
[0:30] down and may soon reverse its buildup in
[0:33] the Persian Gulf. National security
[0:35] correspondent David Martin reports.
[0:38] >> Troops were still leaving from McDill
[0:40] Air Force Base in Florida today, but the
[0:42] twoe crash buildup in the Persian Gulf
[0:44] is slowing to a halt now that the sudden
[0:47] Iraqi buildup along the border with
[0:48] Kuwait has gone away. But the US does
[0:51] not want to go through another
[0:52] long-distance exercise like this. So
[0:55] today, the US warned Saddam Hussein not
[0:57] to do it again. Joined only by Britain,
[1:00] the US delivered an ultimatum to the
[1:01] Iraqi ambassador at the UN, warning of
[1:04] serious consequences, in other words,
[1:06] military attack if Saddam sends his
[1:08] Republican guards south again. The
[1:10] Pentagon this afternoon released
[1:12] reconnaissance photos of the Republican
[1:14] guards returning to their bases in
[1:15] central and northern Iraq. Based on the
[1:18] intelligence we are seeing now uh in
[1:20] Iraq uh we obviously can see that the
[1:23] threat is receding.
[1:25] >> The US still intends to put 13,000
[1:27] combat troops into Kuwait and 275
[1:30] aircraft at bases in Saudi Arabia but
[1:32] plans to send 155,000 troops and 600
[1:36] airplanes including F-17 stealth
[1:38] fighters and B-52 bombers are now off.
[1:41] The vast preponderance of the f