CBS Evening News - 1991-02-12
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:07] An exclusive report that the US will
[0:09] give Israel the codes it needs to
[0:11] retaliate against. The battleship
[0:14] Missouri's big guns rake Iraqi
[0:16] positions. And the US military buildup
[0:19] in the desert is reported to be
[0:20] complete.
[0:23] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:26] reporting tonight with a special war
[0:28] update edition. Good evening. A story
[0:31] developing this hour of a possible peace
[0:33] feeler from Saddam Hussein. We'll be
[0:36] developing that story as we can as it
[0:39] goes along. It happens against a
[0:41] backdrop of Allied war plananes, naval
[0:43] guns, and artillery combining today to
[0:46] blast away at an Iraqi troop
[0:47] concentration in Kuwait. One senior US
[0:50] military official said the three-hour
[0:52] barrage was the biggest battlefield
[0:53] action initiated by the allies and a
[0:56] dress rehearsal for a possible all-out
[0:58] ground offensive. And then there is this
[1:01] possible possible hint of a peace feeler
[1:04] from Baghdad after a meeting between
[1:06] Saddam Hussein and his Soviet envoy.
[1:08] Iraqi radio said Saddam is willing to
[1:11] cooperate with the Soviet Union in
[1:13] seeking an end to the war. No further
[1:16] details available at this moment, but as
[1:18] I say, we're checking and we'll tell you
[1:20] more as we find out details. Earlier,
[1:22] American pilots reported knocking out
[1:24] four missile launchers in western Iraq a
[1:27] day after two more Scuds fell on Israel.
[1:29] Up to now, President Bush has tried to
[1:31] keep Israel from retaliating. There are
[1:33] indications tonight that Israel will now
[1:36] get the key US technical codes for
[1:39] Israeli pilots to recognize and be
[1:42] recognized by all