CBS Evening News - 2003-02-18
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[0:03] Tonight's headlines from Kuwait. It
[0:06] could be a major holdup in US war plans.
[0:09] Turkey doubles its money demand for
[0:12] deploying US troops there. The US and
[0:15] Britain try to line up UN support for a
[0:17] quote final challenge to Saddam Hussein.
[0:21] Also tonight, after the blizzard comes
[0:24] the massive cleanup. Shovel it out and
[0:27] melt it down. And a hellish scene
[0:30] beneath the earth. More than a hundred
[0:33] are killed in an arson attack in a South
[0:35] Korean subway.
[0:43] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:46] with Dan Rather reporting tonight from
[0:49] Kuwait City and John Roberts in New
[0:52] York.
[0:54] >> Good evening. President Bush made it
[0:56] clear today he's keeping the United
[0:57] States on the road to war with Iraq, an
[1:00] increasingly bumpy road politically and
[1:03] diplomatically. Here are today's
[1:04] developments in the showdown with
[1:06] Saddam. The president said he quote
[1:08] disagrees respectfully with anti-war
[1:10] protesters. He and the British are
[1:13] fine-tuning a new UN resolution which
[1:16] would authorize war to disarm Iraq. In
[1:19] Iraq, attempts by UN inspectors to
[1:22] interview Iraqi scientists have hit yet
[1:24] another big snag. And the US military
[1:27] says it now has 92,000 personnel in
[1:30] Kuwait and nearly that number elsewhere
[1:33] in the Gulf region. But US deployment
[1:36] plans have run into serious new trouble.
[1:39] CBS's David Martin reports the Turks
[1:41] have decided they want a lot more money
[1:44] for the use of their bases.
[1:46] >> Go, go, go, go, go. With 180,000
[1:49] American troops now in position, the US
[1:51] has reached a major crossroads on the
[1:53] road to war with Iraq. Before the end of
[1:56] the week, it mu