CBS Evening News - 1993-01-18
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[0:03] First pictures of damage done by US
[0:05] cruise missiles in Iraq. Iraqis lash out
[0:08] at President Bush. He orders another
[0:11] attack. As President-elect Putin
[0:14] prepares to take office, public
[0:15] confidence in him appears to be growing.
[0:18] And horror at the scene of a deadly
[0:20] commuter train collision in the Midwest.
[0:25] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:30] From Washington DC, sight of the 52nd
[0:32] presidential inaugural Dan Rather
[0:35] report. Good evening. In less than 48
[0:37] hours, right back there at the capital,
[0:39] Bill Clinton will assume the presidency
[0:41] of the United States. Until then, the
[0:44] full power of that office remains with
[0:46] George Bush. And he used that power
[0:48] today to launch another attack on Iraq.
[0:51] Our coverage of this extraordinary week
[0:53] begins with national security
[0:55] correspondent David Martin at the
[0:56] Defense Department.
[0:58] With no sign of give on either side, Air
[1:01] Force jets returned to their bases in
[1:02] Saudi Arabia after a high noon raid on
[1:05] air defense sites in southern Iraq.
[1:07] >> What we were attacking was the enemy's
[1:09] uh uh ground radars that allow them to
[1:14] see
[1:15] uh our airplanes in the sky. We're
[1:18] trying to take his uh ears and his eyes
[1:21] out.
[1:22] >> Today's strike was a repeat of last
[1:23] Wednesday's raid. Some of the targets
[1:26] that were missed then were struck again.
[1:28] It was to have been a 75 plane strike,
[1:30] including planes from the carrier
[1:32] Kittyhawk.
[1:33] >> EVERYBODY'S READY TO GO. EVERYTHING'S
[1:34] LOADED UP. We're ready to bomb.
[1:36] >> But at the last minute, the Kittyhawk
[1:37] was called off when the Iraqis moved the
[1:39] mobile missile batteries that