World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-01-21
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[0:02] From ABC, [music]
[0:04] this is a special 1hour edition of World
[0:06] News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Good
[0:09] evening. We begin tonight with some of
[0:10] the basics. The Iraqis said today that
[0:12] Allied airmen who've been captured will
[0:14] be used in an effort to prevent attack
[0:17] on some Iraqi targets. President Bush
[0:19] says it will not change the war. There
[0:21] have now been almost 5,000 combat
[0:23] missions against Iraq and occupied
[0:24] Kuwait. But the Pentagon concedes it is
[0:27] having a hard time with the weather,
[0:29] which the generals and the admirals also
[0:30] site as the reason for some
[0:32] contradictory reporting on the
[0:34] effectiveness of the overall campaign.
[0:36] We begin with ABC's Bill Riker, who is
[0:38] in Saudi Arabia.
[0:40] >> 5 4 3 2 1 launch.
[0:49] The 5-day old air campaign concentrated
[0:51] again today on targeting and eliminating
[0:54] Iraq's Scud missile launchers. Military
[0:57] estimates of how many launchers Iraq has
[1:00] and how many have been knocked out vary.
[1:03] >> In accordance with our campaign plan, we
[1:05] will continue and have aggressively
[1:07] pursued launchers when we find them and
[1:10] when we fix them and when we can attack
[1:12] them. And we'll continue to do that. But
[1:14] low clouds again slowed down the Allied
[1:16] air punch. The sordy rate dropped 50% in
[1:19] the last 24 hours. One reason why flyers
[1:22] have been unable to track down and
[1:24] destroy Iraq's mobile launchers.
[1:26] >> Not much going on. The clouds kind of
[1:28] affect a lot of things going on today.
[1:30] So
[1:32] hopefully it'll clear out, be able to
[1:33] get some get some ordinance back up
[1:35] there.
[1:36] >> Weather has not affected the bombing of
[1:38] fixed