Description: On WBOQ radio show, Edward Kennedy discusses Persian Gulf crisis, urging patience for economic sanctions before taking military action against Iraq. Richard Cheney. VU meters, reel-to-reel tape deck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/04/1990
Description: Uri Ra'anan talks about Soviet evasion of INF arms control agreement by giving Iraq SS-12 missiles and delivering war matériel to Baghdad immediately before start of Persian Gulf war. Red Army chorus.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1991
Description: In State of the Union President Bush refers to new world order, encourages volunteer solutions to domestic problems, hints at cease-fire if Iraq promises to withdraw from Kuwait, and frets about Baltic sovereignty. Edward Kennedy and Dick Cheney seen in audience. Brigadeer General Pat Stevens of the U.S. Army speaks on the military situation in the Middle East.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1991
Description: United Nations Security Council Resolution 487 condemning Israel's attack on a nuclear facility in Iraq.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/19/1981
Description: Oil market analyst explains gulf war motives in terms of US economic interest. Oil reserves in Iraq & Kuwait are cheaper to extract than in US. War outcome will dictate who will prospect for Iraq oil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/26/1991
Description: Iraqi troops reported retreating. Wounded carried from Red Cross truck to marine helicopter. Trenches in sand. Smoke and flames from oil fires. US barracks in Dhahran hit by Scud missile, killing and wounding dozens. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/25/1991
Description: Soviet envoy Primakov tours Baghdad debris. Bush meets w/ French+British defense ministers; accuses Saddam of propaganda.Ground troops sit+wait in tent in Saudi Arabia. Colonel says troops will be patient. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/12/1991
Description: Iraqis await response to Soviet peace plan. John Major says Iraq will lose. Camel. Soviet spokesman announces Iraq's conditional acceptance. US officer says 'we're movin' out.' Troops pack up. Truck convoy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/21/1991
Description: Colin Powell says strategy on Iraqi army is "cut it off and kill it." Dick Cheney is vague on expected length of war. Bush says Desert Storm is working.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1991
Description: Allied POWs shown on Iraqi tv. Bush condemns this brutal treatment of pilots. Smoke and fire in Baghdad. Patriot missile launcher in Israel. Patriot missile in night sky over Saudi Arabia hits Scud. ,McKenna
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/21/1991