CBS Evening News - 1991-01-15
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[0:08] Peace hopes fade in the last hours
[0:10] before the deadline. Some Pentagon
[0:12] officials say Saddam may launch the
[0:14] first attack and a Supreme Court ruling
[0:16] that may roll back school desegregation.
[0:22] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:24] reporting. Good evening. Just a few
[0:27] hours left now before the deadline for
[0:29] Iraq to get out of Kuwait. Midnight
[0:31] Eastern US time. The last peace efforts
[0:34] are fading fast. All sides are gerting
[0:36] for war in the Middle East. Tonight, UN
[0:39] Secretary General Paris Dequayar issued
[0:41] one last appeal for Iraq to get out of
[0:43] Kuwait. Earlier, France gave up its
[0:45] diplomatic initiative. The French
[0:47] premier said, and I quote, "There is a
[0:49] fatal moment when one must act, and this
[0:51] moment, alas, has arrived." CBS News
[0:55] White House correspondent Wyatt Andrews
[0:56] begins our coverage. Wyatt,
[0:58] >> Dan, the biggest question from here is
[1:01] whether there will be war at exactly the
[1:03] midnight deadline tonight. Now, the
[1:05] White House insists that the president
[1:06] as of now has not made any final orders,
[1:09] issued any final orders as to say
[1:11] specifically go or don't go. But at the
[1:13] same time, you get a resounding no
[1:15] comment here if you ask the question
[1:17] whether the president in his own mind
[1:19] has already decided that force must be
[1:21] used.
[1:22] >> Early today, Mr. Bush convened his war
[1:24] council, including secretaries Baker and
[1:27] Cheney, the vice president and top
[1:29] advisers to discuss all diplomatic and
[1:31] military issues. But was there any
[1:34] diplomacy left to discuss? At the UN,
[1:37] the US and Great Britain quashed
[1:39] France's idea of