CBS Evening News - 1998-02-18
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[0:01] This is not the way they planned it. The
[0:04] Desert Thunder sales campaign is
[0:06] harassed by protesters and hecklers.
[0:08] >> United States
[0:12] 2.
[0:13] >> As more US forces move into the Gulf,
[0:16] the UN Secretary General heads for
[0:18] Baghdad, hoping for compromise. El Nino
[0:21] is leaving the nation's solid bowl,
[0:23] spinning its wheels, and it will cost
[0:25] you 20 more green at the produce
[0:28] counter. and eye on America. This could
[0:30] get your blood pressure up. Managed
[0:32] health care plans, HMOs, that can't
[0:35] afford to deliver what they promised
[0:37] you.
[0:40] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:44] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:47] headquarters in New York.
[0:49] >> Good evening. The United Nations
[0:50] Secretary General is heading for Baghdad
[0:52] looking for compromise. He said today he
[0:54] has quote a reasonable chance of
[0:57] success. President Clinton says he is
[0:59] not interested in compromise and he is
[1:01] not optimistic. More US forces took up
[1:04] positions in the Gulf today for a
[1:06] possible air assault on Iraq. A CBS News
[1:09] poll out tonight indicates 77% of
[1:12] Americans would support a bombing
[1:14] mission, but most, 59% also say the
[1:16] president should give diplomacy more
[1:18] time. CBS's David Martin reports the
[1:21] administration got much more than it
[1:22] bargained for today when it took part in
[1:25] an unruly, disorganized, and badly
[1:27] staged presentation broadcast to a
[1:30] worldwide television audience that
[1:32] included Iraq.
[1:34] The president's top national security
[1:36] advisers went on the road to Columbus,
[1:38] Ohio, and ended up as props in a rockus
[1:41] piece of theater, which must have been
[1:43] music to the ears of Sa