CBS Evening News - 2003-03-10
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[0:02] Tonight's headlines. US lobbies hard for
[0:05] new war resolution. France and Russia
[0:08] vow vetos. Pentagon plans test of huge
[0:11] new bomb. Soaring gasoline prices. Is
[0:16] gouging to blame? Also tonight, before a
[0:19] war even starts, US forces are under
[0:22] attack by nature. Eye on America
[0:25] investigates a rash of military training
[0:28] accidents and allegations of a cover up
[0:31] and a new drug that could protect the
[0:34] millions of people dangerously allergic
[0:37] to peanuts.
[0:43] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:47] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:49] headquarters in New York.
[0:51] >> Good evening. President Bush spent much
[0:53] of this day on the phone trying to line
[0:55] up support for a new UN Security Council
[0:57] resolution that would in effect
[0:59] authorize war against Iraq if Saddam
[1:01] Hussein does not disarm by next Monday.
[1:04] With France and Russia now threatening
[1:06] to veto the resolution, the White House
[1:08] signaled the president is willing to
[1:10] compromise at least on the deadline. His
[1:13] spokesman saying things are quote fluid.
[1:16] In any case, a vote some expected as
[1:18] soon as tomorrow likely won't come now
[1:20] until at least later in the week. CBS's
[1:23] Bill Plant begins tonight's coverage of
[1:25] the showdown with Saddam. Bill,
[1:27] >> Dan, this negotiation is intense. The
[1:29] undecided nations are now talking about
[1:31] extending Iraq's deadline another month.
[1:34] Washington and London today signaled
[1:36] their willingness to extend next
[1:37] Monday's cutoff, but only by a bit. And
[1:40] they've had to put off the vote that
[1:42] would set that deadline now until
[1:43] Wednesday at the earliest.
[1:46] President Bush mad