Nightline (ABC) - 1991-02-18
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[0:00] Nights at 6 on channel 2 news.
[0:02] >> He's Gorbachoff's gobetween with Saddam
[0:05] Hussein. He was in Baghdad less than a
[0:08] week ago with Saddam. He was present at
[0:10] today's Kremlin meeting between
[0:12] Gorbachof and Iraq's foreign minister.
[0:14] He joins us live from Moscow tonight.
[0:25] This is ABC News Night Line reporting
[0:28] from Washington with the latest on the
[0:30] Gulf War. Ted Cppel.
[0:33] >> It would probably be too harsh to
[0:35] describe it as a peace scare. But what
[0:38] more, after all, could the Bush
[0:40] administration want than to achieve its
[0:41] goals in the Persian Gulf without
[0:43] further loss of life? But there is a
[0:45] sense of apprehension in Washington this
[0:47] evening. a feeling that perhaps the
[0:49] Soviet peace initiative may provide
[0:51] Saddam Hussein with too much of an
[0:53] opportunity to save face and more to the
[0:56] point to retain power. Publicly, the
[0:59] Soviets have spoken only of remaining
[1:01] faithful to the UN Security Council
[1:03] demand that Iraq withdraw
[1:05] unconditionally from Kuwait. But
[1:08] elements of the Gorbachev plan have been
[1:09] leaked to a German newspaper and
[1:11] partially confirmed by a Soviet
[1:13] official. And those elements would seem
[1:15] to include conditions that might not be
[1:18] acceptable to the United States. In
[1:20] particular, there are believed to be
[1:22] assurances to the government of Iraq and
[1:24] to Saddam Hussein in particular that the
[1:27] Soviet Union will resist all efforts to
[1:29] punish them. That might be difficult to
[1:31] reconcile with Security Council
[1:33] resolution 674, which requires Iraq to
[1:37] pay compensation to Kuwait. It is also
[1:40] reported that the Soviets are o