CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 5 p.m. (E)
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[0:00] by ministers, psychologists, and
[0:01] military families. We will let you know
[0:03] when that hotline starts operating. And
[0:06] that's our news at this hour. We invite
[0:08] you to stay tuned to News Channel 5 for
[0:10] the very latest local developments on
[0:12] the war in the Persian Gulf anytime at
[0:14] all that the situation might warrant.
[0:16] Right now though, we will send you back
[0:18] to the CBS network for more of the
[0:20] continuing coverage of Operation Desert
[0:22] Storm.
[0:44] You are watching CBS News continuing
[0:46] coverage of Showdown in the Gulf. From
[0:49] CBS News headquarters in New York, here
[0:51] is Dan Rather. The air war thunders on.
[0:54] Apparently highly successful question.
[0:58] How soon a ground offensive? No answer
[1:00] forthcoming. President Bush has told
[1:02] Saddam Hussein again today, surrender
[1:05] unconditionally. The United States
[1:07] threatens escalation if Iraq uses
[1:09] chemical weapons. Ground troops massing
[1:12] near the Kuwaiti border, but no actual
[1:15] signs of an allied move into Kuwait. A
[1:17] lot of speculation, many questions, but
[1:19] no actual sign of movement into Kuwait
[1:21] on the ground yet. Reported tolls.
[1:24] Allies say three planes lost. Iraq
[1:26] claims 55 planes have been downed. The
[1:28] Allied air attacks go on by war plane
[1:31] and by cruise missiles. At the United
[1:33] Nations, US Ambassador Pickering warned
[1:35] Iraq not to use what he called weapons
[1:38] of mass destruction, saying that it
[1:40] would bring a dramatic escalation in
[1:42] hostilities. He's talking about the
[1:43] possibility of chemical and biological
[1:45] weapons being used yet by Iraq. US and
[1:48] Allied war plananes show no letup in a
[1:50] relen