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Post war update

Description: Captured journalists in Baghdad on eve of release. British soldier's coffin in London. Kuwaiti hostages sent home on buses. Red Crescent trucks. US soldiers get exuberant homecoming welcome. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/08/1991

Post war update

Description: Upon cease-fire, Kuwaitis return to inspect damaged homes. Bob Michel brags about supporting war. Jordanian ammunition crates. Israelis remove plastic f/sealed room. Bush w/ Kuwaiti ambassador. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/28/1991

Post war update

Description: Gen. Kelly attests to confusion about who are the fighting factions in unrest around Basra. Sabah family kisses ground upon return to Kuwait. First group of allied POWs is released. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/04/1991

Reporting how the war began

Description: Start of Persian Gulf war with air offensive, as reported first on ABC News. Statements from Marlin Fitzwater, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell. Graphic of Scud missile. "The liberation of Kuwait has begun."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1991

Saddam Hussein's goals

Description: Leila Fawaz explains Saddam Hussein's competition with other Arab leaders and his ostensible aim to take from wealthy Kuwait to provide for poorer Iraq.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/09/1990

State of the Union / war update

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

War for mideast oil

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

War update

Description: Revolutionary Command Council says Iraq will withdraw from Kuwait but attaches many conditions. Iraqis celebrate. Bush calls it "a cruel hoax." Bush at Raytheon in Andover. Kremlin in snow. Tariq Aziz. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/15/1991

War update

Description: Bush congratulates himself on quick victory in ground war. Tanks roll into Kuwait. Gen. Schwarzkopf gives briefing on strategy and ridicules Saddam. "Welcome to Kuwait" sign. ,Meyer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1991

War update

Description: Soviet advisor Nikolai Shishlin awaits Aziz's answer to peace proposal. Children step through Baghdad rubble. Baker says Iraq "will leave Kuwait soon." Soldiers in sand read,listen to radio,clean gun.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1991