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said captured allied airmen will be used as human shields at military targets president were said that would not affect the us led war against saddam hussein marine artillery batteries launched the first direct strike an iraqi positions in kuwait when the details in our new summer in a moment soon after a summary of the day's news about the war we look at the treatment of us prisoners of war with iraqi ambassador to the united nations in three american adults charlayne hunter gault reports from saudi arabia analyst with private reports from chicago on the mixture of the martin luther king holiday with the war and the goal funding for the newshour has been provided by at tnt you earn the right through and by pepsico and made possible by the financial support of viewers like you and the corporation for public broadcasting

iraq once again declared a human shield policy today saying it will send more than twenty american and allied prisoners of war to areas likely to be targets for bombing raids iraqis said they were doing so because of attacks on civilian areas president bush another allied leaders probably condemned the policy as a war crime as saddam hussein declared yesterday that his forces had not yet their holster an american and allied airmen were interrogated on baghdad television in arabic and english videotape of the broadcasters tried by iraqi television to worldwide television news a c c

he's in the southwest we'll have more of the statements later in the program the international committee of the red cross in iraq has violated international agreement on prisoners of war treatment the red cross is responsible for monitoring the rules of the geneva convention italy britain and the united states also denounced directs actions president bush spoke to reporters after returning from camp david with house speaker tom foley it is very clear this is it a direct violation of the year every convey chen that protects prisoners international red cross i understand certified to that today first place this is not going to make a difference in the prosecution of the of the war against saddam not to make a difference have said that before i

said that when he brutally held hostages that numbered up into the thousands and it's not to make a difference but i would make the strongest appeal of these people be treated properly that they be given the treatment that is according to them under the international conventions and they are not in america is angry about this and i think the rest of the world is and this morning i talked to us more of our coalition partners and so it is backfiring if he thought this brutal treatment of pilots as a way to muster world support he is dead wrong when asked if saddam hussein would be held accountable mr bohr said you can count on the ranking diplomat at the iraqi embassy in washington was called the state department today after the meeting he said department officials were concerned about the treatment of the captured american airman

mr davis bored civilians say this because he's been made and it's been sitting on the same day iraqi and why was also asked if his country would abide by the geneva conventions he said iraq respect all international conventions will talk to iraq's ambassador to the united nations about the issue later in the program there was a us marine artillery attack against iraqi targets in kuwait last night a pool press reports said eighty four rounds of high explosives were fired at an iraqi artillery post that had been shelling marine positions near the saudi border it was the

first round fired from the allied side there was no word on casualties or damage us in one tank has begun moving toward full footage released today show the so called abram's tank as they test fired their guns and the iraqis saudi border the videotape also show exercise as involving apache helicopters late last week the army's eighty second airborne division left its desert camp to move closer to the froth on the fifth day of operation desert storm the us command said more than eighty one hundred stories have been flown against iraqi they said one more plane was lost since yesterday a us navy at fourteen pound cat that brings the total allied loss of the thirteen including nine us lines they said iraqis last seventeen aircraft air raid sirens went off briefly today in the city about around in eastern saudi arabia a pentagon official said a missile had been launched from a rack but it fell harmlessly into the persian gulf yesterday to look ten missiles were lost and iran and the saudi capital of riyadh us command

said nine were shot down by us patriot missiles and one cell in the golf the patriots lighting up the night sky in riyadh there were bright explosions when they intercepted the incoming scud at least one of the patriots appeared goodness fired and fell into downtown riyadh this afternoon at a pentagon briefing army lieutenant general tom kelly and rear admiral mike mcconnell were asked to direct was using decoys to hamper the allied effort to destroy the scud missile launchers it's some insane is spent you consider warriors engaged in warfare learning lessons of warfare and one we're observing is the korean use of the chorus is one of his tactics then all this year with you our four crime view that probably have not used the fix launchers so it's at least my opinion that the use of before this time is that the parties and it's been a planned throughout the lead up to this conflict we're going to the mobile launchers which are still out as i make it very difficult for them to get an accurate read on mobile launchers really have a

dramatic we've we know work with for sure of what we've taken out i it seemed to make any job you took out of the joy the chords or not i think an occasional waltz year we can pretty much tell about the us government has asked the maker the patriot missile to speed up its production my spokesman for the manufacturers' a massive massachusetts based raytheon company said employees were working around the clock in tel aviv a senior american diplomat denied speculation that the us and patriot anti missile missiles to israel in exchange for israeli restraint in retaliating for iraqi missile attacks deputy secretary of state lawrence eagleburger said no deals and instruct on anything is that israel has a right to respond but praised it for retraining refraining from doing so yes trains world airlines announced today was cutting back its flights to europe by nearly half a twa official said gulf war fears had drastically reduced passenger demand on new york to london another main to give you a roots he said the temporary cut backs would require the furloughing

of thirty five hundred pm you at employees the financial market's reflected an apparent new believe the war's going to last longer than expected the dow jones industrial average closed down seventeen points london and tokyo markets were also down the price of a barrel of crude oil on the new york market was up more than two dollars to twenty one dollars and thirty cents a barrel in latvia government leaders called on moscow to rein in the soviet bloc or a police who shot their way into the ministry of interior headquarters in me day yesterday the latvians said they were ready to take measures in moscow did not but they added they were not prepared to use force and a marshal of independent television news has a report members of that his militia arrived at their headquarters this morning attempting to find order announced details but they like the rest of the baltics confinement order now the political aftermath of his latest ventures sold the shooting last night came without warning saudi interior ministry troops or

blackberries stone latvia's minister building firing automatic weapons and that armed resistance from inside in latvia tonight the leader of the local communist party denied communist involvement he said the troops had been acting in self defense i didn't leave a direct presidential rule in comas and he called the pro independence government here to be sold but the lab in school to the barricade by their parliament believe the communists are still getting ready to seize power in on the missile defense unit has been organized to protect that was parliament and strategic buildings it's not like nineteen fourteen we do now resembles a scene from the first world war film set of wire and bond five cover the cobbled streets of the old town turned into hospitals these people are expecting the worst in moscow members of the russian federation parliament stood for a moment of

silence to honor those killed by soviet forces in latvia and lithuania federation president boris yeltsin said the crackdowns in the baltic states were signs of a reactionary true in the soviet union in washington president bush spoke to reporters about the baltic situation i am increasingly concerned with a statement on that yesterday i would again appealed of the soviet union leaders to resist using force and we've heard that european countries staking out on this now and of the world is very much concerned about that as well white house spokesman fitzwater said the us and nato allies were considering sanctions in response to moscow's actions in the baltics that includes our summary of the day's news now it's on to the prisoner of war story with the iraqi ambassador to the united nations and three american analysts a report from saudi arabia and the martin luther king holiday we go now to showing a captured us

pilots on iraqi television president bush defense secretary cheney as well as officials and other nations of the coalition denounce the actions yesterday only audio recordings were available to the west and elsewhere outside iraqi today video tape was released here's an excerpt which was edited in london to eliminate the iraqi television narration he's also a thirty nine was ruined piano to go yes i am well movies and the warriors head off a vision as well who is

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now to iraq's ambassador to the united nations abdul on their island are years now the highest ranking iraqi officials still in the united states but her master what's the point of showing these prisoners on television when first let me begin with that some attention from the geneva conventions octavia with their conventions required or prison for supplies are certain questions namely his name his age design the unit that he belongs to and the question which they're not the announcer asked the president ford's where within the limits of work with me so there was no violation of their rights human rights or their rights under the geneva convention the second point i am sure that being treated well and that appears on tv should be a message over a short list of their families that they are safe and alive and that and what happens and i'm sure that it is when one at that the second poem a

meditation how to stop trying to have their cake and eat it i might i would violate international by the geneva convention and it's all pay for it but when some of the company would divvy it looked a bit like you're on the harmonica region that as hell now of course everywhere and interstates knows that there are four geneva conventions the fed one of our vip your their views which we respectfully and the fourth one about the treatment of civilians during armed conflicts now the us authorities is cut the body from the south east of the west and no place at the mosque or churches as a mother flat cnn is that they're now is that the armed forces destroyed one of the most attention getting and churches and the mall there's anything about the mosque and hospitals and bridges story that has the whereabouts of the prison reforms really no one is safe from them like i'm a burden but at the

bottom of the fourth these respect the geneva convention number four navy pretty the city and inhumane way let's go back through my question first what was the purpose of showing the prisoners on television mr master i think i answered your question by saying that so it's a nightmare and it's so called allies have been denying local iraqi cities that he is the rule that you have some form of sort of pilots but that winning ticket and they were asked the questions which i thought that was kind of the geneva conventions right now have they been taken to military targets to be used as human genome now i can't deny that as an artifact or <unk> the vision statement but my government i believe i had some of that they would be put in a scientific institutions how about whether this would be convenient article incoming and i believe it's maybe seven on another place for that now the red cross says that you're bigger

government has violated international conventions in the geneva convention in the handling of the prisoners you deny them i was actually i had a luncheon this afternoon with that example of that because he did not there is this question with me and i haven't seen the subtext of that but i believe it would also say that the message is violating the fourth geneva convention by denying madison for them the bombarding civilians also the author of the country it is you're government and allow read the red cross to talk to these prisoners and ascertain directly whether or not they're they've been mistreated isis in some clothes in the way we followed it with a unity in prison all fours by inviting that and the author of the girls' agency to see them and to ensure that our three military analysts who were on this program last night said that by won by just listening to their voices and others have joined in today after watching the videotape that they said it was clear that these americans and allied pilots had been court maybe even tortured in the

sign what they said is that through this is it sheer lives and allegations but i tell you anyone in deposition must have some psychological shock of performing in the hands of sort of any of the rollout of the people there were flying by themselves and they were captured fortunately no one bid anaheim to them as a matter of fact they're not the government always override your edges iraqis not gotten it isn't awful or any pilot that might be captured mr matthew mentioned at the damage or an injury and death to american aid to iraqi civilians can you give us like a casualty count how many iraqis have died since this war began last thursday what it it seem actually idea comes off their number of civilian that is cities and towns that have been killed because of the bombardment i don't recall now the exact number but that's a sentiment in that three hundred and that's a military and so they were losing billions survey how many military personnel we don't allow the military presence is there what's the state of the damage in baghdad where i assume are from seeing what we see

in america rate us cities like this in the event we really don't have any you know i haven't in atlanta reports from your government no one is a sort of manage your mouth when wendy and i say this i do and they're all not authorizing that state but back at apple even though the motions but because i'm six and he does not say that in the us already have a thought that back at all when they applied that to use the seventies in order to push back the forces out of kuwait now what the us has given itself a license to destroy gotten to stores schools and most of everything surprise of ingenuity with kuwait is it gonna work now is your government not really going well i don't know it all depends on american policy we have invited united states over time to negotiate to try to solve the much about the sunnis but as you know always received orders do that and without them don't do that we don't accept this are you aware of any

diplomatic efforts are underway at this moment to engineer a ceasefire of any kind what i'm aware of what the number of fires easily shifted from the very beginning of the prices up to now but i know the nazi diplomacy has been persistently every such peaceful and is it your expectation and that this war is going to go on there are going to be a ground war in a sling has been gone for a while don't you believe now well i don't know for how long thin ice it can sustain these casualties and keep its forces over there but i hope we're going to italy which is the money that cinematic and as far as iraqis episode we have an alternative but to defend herself so from your point of view this war nor from racks point of view there's not going to be any cease fire there's not going to be any surrender there's not an immediate withdrawal from kuwait what i wouldn't rule out ceasefire that world we have not discussed this is not that it's an important not that it has to be settled by the leadership above definitely it up with nemo seven why should we surrender and they had nearly officials of your

country been surprised that the magnitude of the allied military bombardments up below we'd expect this one we do expect me actually anticipated that america would find that predicts one were a lot better and the fact that were badly right now destroying the museum building site that this tuition churches and everything it shows that evaporates or get some sort of revenge or not to do any humanitarian or an invisible shows that the cubs the semester finally should asian americans in this country expect a terrorist attacks against them under the sponsorship of your government one please you know we have to be careful of all of this all of my government has never promoted it there isn't we are the subject of their setbacks by israel and interstates but should americans expect paris attacks against them sponsored by your government it's not for me its fourth quarter forces in their lives depend on the most efficient force

enlisted them badly the us and the suspect is one of the safest companies more so that the lord as far as you know your government is not going to order and sponsored terrorist attacks against americans in the united states my mom insisted that davis' about reform the policy of my company and definitely has not requested are us or promoted the andes of activities that is the second would be against and that is a lot of the guys in the sofa <unk> like vermont senator run let's return to our military analysts plus one to discuss military pilots and the special training they receive in case and capture with this is dan mackinnon a former navy pilot with expertise in a rocky an american air defenses retired air force general charles donnelly a command of the air force in europe and headed the us training mission in saudi arabia joining them is charlie plan a former navy fighter pilot who flew seventy four missions in vietnam was to palmer shot down in nineteen sixty seven and was a prisoner of war for almost six years he

joins us from los angeles just a glum looking let those men were there and injuries and then they and demeanor consistent wears behavior after sunday's been his plans been shot down and he's ejected from a blind well and this is low the difficult say it is are you going to be in shock the last thing you expect that happens to bail out than when i bailed out iraqis in charge were probably a couple days we use or i would expect a little animation from those guys i mean they really were alive at one time they don't even they don't even appear to have much control over their emotions or what's happening and i'm no expert obviously but it sure looks to me like they're very well controlled either by fear by torture i cant officer on the world and you can see from them when they are from injections of landing or torture or whatever they'd been pretty well brutalized three options you do get some injury objecting or you can get cement in rejecting and

bailing out and yes usually though it's a back injury spinal bones muscles and i used to see a lot of facial injuries in those really are very common unless you land in the brush or trees are a force or party or your dragon by your parachute out but most injuries really are not facial injuries we reject america general bodily you been able to see you were with us last month we just heard our report now you never see the pictures hour one of the condition of the pilots suggest you blogger charlie plummet official injuries are all the different the stranger's bones also i'm somewhat concerned that what the world threw his head four tours in vietnam before the us so easily and a combat veteran some statements obama will get a loan because ive filled with that man's under direct a stretch and may well hang around one of the agents partly also last night before we put him on tv damage in one of the condition of two

high doses while black ice which is sort of unusual you they usually jackie have a helmet on an adviser usually over that would protect you right in the church in sequence for the snake is also interesting to look at the british pilot in the fact that he did not look up with very dejected the whole time it's obvious i believe that they are undergoing some form of torture staring look in their eyes do that when it struck me that all of them except he were staring almost unwittingly wanted to try to look for to see if they were really what they were being told and i didn't know as the ice going back and forth like a teleprompter what have you really like that and they're obviously under severe pressure nerve an uncertain time europe all of you are familiar with the air of a training combat pilots get to and to prepare them for this kind of situation would you describe how that training has changed since vietnam particularly in the psychological aspect of

my training at the naval academy when i was taught the code of conduct in the ranks remembered at birth don't cooperate with the enemy but except pre release that was that was inaugurated by four different what we call ceres school's survival escape resistance and of asian and i went in to schools and for the white house twenty one in the philippines to prepare me for that experience i think we found as prisoners of war that all the brooklyn that you can get really is and never replaces a value system and you have to use certain judgment that to carry over a longer length of time in particular if you're going to be tortured it's really difficult to stick by the name ranks you'll never date of birth when we were patronage in vietnam in seventy three we yeah we went back through the survival scrolls and in many of my pals the six hundred some others who who came home or active and are still active in the series schools around the country

they can't tell slightly different approach i think the job and probably speak to that unit and can better than i but were taking quantity of approach as too how pow's should respond and then sometimes it really isn't to our best interest of the national interest to stick to name or actual number until you're being into insanity has some of the guys were my pals in vietnam and so the fall as you see on those tapes i i suspect had been instructed to take a certain amount of physical pain and make sure that they don't give away anything that's that that's top secret and then start to ease into it with with political to take statements and i think that's probably what you see happening i think those laws have probably been hurt somewhat severely but not to the point of physical physical damage and now they're starting to get in but by that really is the is the difference and mr carmack but now an american pilot shot down and captured who makes or is

induced to make a statement say are contrary to be only the war against the war needn't feel guilty about it when he comes home or he wouldn't feel that he was going to be subject to any discipline because the country now understands in its policy that it's better to say something like that then is that is that what you're saying a very good point as a matter of fact many of us when we gave more than named ranks you'll never date of birth as always did eventually felt very guilty because we felt we had to the trade the code of conduct and i think that that was up the psychological problem really within those first few months until we decided that yes that was probably the only thing we can do and still alive and so yes i think you're right i think that they they probably are going to feel better about what they're doing now than we did general bodily is that right that there isn't the same said there shouldn't be the same sense of guilt or shame that there wasn't a deal code of conduct charlie up to a point that

depends a lot of that how people interpret back here i think we should interpret analysis of men under stress have the shock of a bailout and then after that the repatriated they're below things looked into to say what in fact they did the choice rights or the train to give the guys is as great but you never really determine how you're ever at what you find yourself in that situation what you're feeling about that now that the way the training has changed since the wild things a pardon sir school is that if you have a faith faith in god we have a strong family relationships it help you through that kind of environment a lot better robin air in addition to the fact that this guilt thing is a very important thing they found out in vietnam that matter how strong you were eventually we were cracked everyone up here until i got to say what they wanted to say in that guilt thing it is a very horton a specter that so these guys not only americans but the british and also some italian ridden sugar and a kuwaiti said

some knowledge that very similar after just a couple of days in captivity so apparently they now feel it's all right to do that well he may this is also a very orchestrated television and disoriented it makes me wonder why the united states has gone a mere bombed out the television powers and iran to destroy that opportunity for saddam hussein to make propaganda out of the field is it destroys a television radio and also would eliminate his ability to communicate with people one or one that's going to happen generally what i think about the ambassador's are common a moment ago that all questions asked were within the year respected the geneva conventions what is permitted again i'm not an international lawyer robin but to justify the geneva conventions as a lobbyist for publicity years has already been violated as far as i'm personally concerned as they will not be given any of that will be partially or embarrassed or whatever are the words he

said so i think that that has been violated the order to viral publicity alone and ted turner plum what will the news of this treatment of the pilots do to the morale of the other pilots flying the missions over saudi or over iraq i would suggest that they probably won't deter the morale of the guys you know in order to fight over there euro was tapping so you're never going to be shut down as almost am you know a fighter pilot and bravado that you have to have just to just to be effective as a matter of fact that i was shot in nineteen sixty seven and by that time there were about two hundred prisoners of war that we knew pretty well if they were brutally treated and was a fierce early for all of this but i don't think it did toward our army there are really intent patriotism and commitment to to do the mission and finish the job let's turn to another aspect of the pilot smile and that is another part of the story the effort to rescue doubt crew before they are taken prisoner in saudi arabia today

to air force pilots describe such a rescue they escorted a helicopter which rescued a downed pilot somewhere interact and to destroy an iraqi truck that drove up just at the time of the rescue it's like a storybook in a re about it happened southeast asia many times in one of the seven or i can't believe it actually was coming together just to hear the guy on the vote maria to know that he was there and we get their own thinking markets is quite appealing innovation nation is going to say why you know instead of take one out and it's an indescribable feeling gritty surprise was suddenly the unexpected buechler showed up you know at the moment i thought that was just a coincidence i think it showed up when he did and it was very unfortunate that he did sure when he did an ad couldn't be there he could not afford to be there within the board loan to be there there was surprise and all we could raise the fact that the survivors like to be in jeopardy pickup assets also could be in jeopardy so unfortunately a drug was at the wrong place at the wrong time so has only time i

said employee ordinance in order to really to pick up t a downed pilot how did dispatch detroit well basically using this for a millimeter down an animated couple passes i'm eighty and i think the only one we flew almost nine hours they are born and we didn't feel pretty good til we were probably almost an hour from landing the adrenaline was pumping probably for a good two hours at the victims and reviews don't know three hours sleep last thirty six hours so we actually hope that we can get some sleep again when the line may point eight sorties so you know i'm very happy that i'm also tired and to continue that car lot of experience of picking a downed pilots or hour when problems do they

face doing that in this war in this war you face a variety of problems rather new face the distance you have to go into iraqi in enemy territory from riyadh up to baghdad is a six under fifty four mile solar you got from the border where you probably having those helicopters that we're going to rescue a good four hundred mile trip this is the one area while the gee whiz no fancy technology we have this is the one area that sadly lacking in strike rescuer the rescue the pilots are going on strike and it's very important because israeli air force in their efforts will turn a whole air force used rescue pilot a helicopter today for a deep penetration is an outmoded the vehicle what their one thing it's on the marketplace hersman talked about is the gateway to the us pray which is the vehicle that are going relatively high altitude around twenty thousand feet twice pass the helicopter and concert way down and then the rotors tilt up a converse we hover over to pick up the pot downed pilot and then getting on it in the vehicle roll fast and

then take off and climb out that that is not in production use it because there was great controversy over it there's a big controversy over the airplane they built four of them but that will as i say twice as fast and they have the flexibility that this is the water you need to instill confidence in the pilot and if you do go down you have an opportunity to get rescued and you say would present equipment dates not going to be very very difficult and one the great things so far is past history of the israelis north of the war in north vietnam or rescue or account number of pilots is lagging way behind what we had anticipated but this time we should have had somewhere on it two hundred pilots lost so far it's reported the thirteen so way ahead there right you feel about that are rare that up there a point though it was a lot of time and energy and in vietnam too to become a downed pilot and we deliver effectively give the navy out

on the east coast and we hear a force in cairo's central highlands into laos in a north vietnam and government that they were still working just as hard but for any immediate order also want to know what it is ray very very deep very difficult early part of the war the fences are aaa or so ford also depends where the pilot lands in vietnam we know the land in a village he was gone no question about that but as long as we could maintain radio contact with the mood with his own survival radio and then be able to get in there without too much opposition initially would get him out charlie plan is going to serve to go out on a certain segment of what has been said about the technology these pilots are using tell us a bit about the pilots themselves kind of or were they come from the age of the year in education all that i can speak specifically about navy pilots whole college graduates a lot of

academy types how your behalf of flight training very very intelligent very aggressive very physically and mentally stable men very high morale high spirited guys you got lined up here and there's no doubt in their mind what their mission is and how they're to go about doing it everyone i have seen in the research i've served on the earth on an aircraft carrier and in an air wing for the last three or four years and every man to a man believes he has the finest equipment in the world to work with and it's really healthy every man thinks that we have saddam hussein wealth outgunned so i was at the morale has to be very high over there and from all reports and justifiably so we really are winning the war or accomplishing the mission and i really believe that that we're doing it because of the guys in the equipment we're is there a tie them into becoming a rabbi get out of aggressiveness a certain self confidence feeling that you can do the job better

than anybody else and always follows of trade and this is their super bowl this is matching their wits with their equipment against their opponent in their uninsured excited about doing what they're doing to your enthusiasm it's got a great new artist and less training the world thank you very much gen mckiernan and chinatown still to come on the newshour tonight charlayne hunter gault in saudi arabia animal is a record report on how chicago black sea the wall now a report from charlayne hunter gault in riyadh saudi arabia it's about how saudis and americans are dealing with being the target of iraqi missiles saudi arabia sparkling sprawling capital city woke up this morning to a palpable new reality despite its existence of at least some three hundred miles from iraq it to have become a target of saddam hussein's explosive

scud missiles it happened in the dark of night the dreaded sound of one carried sarin and then some two hours later another only this one was followed by noise associated with missiles cry cry it is hard to find out what is happening we are holed up in an airless bunker in this case has been in hotel basement room and that along with the dear died in case of chemical attack heightens anxiety song motel balcony barry white's like squeezing through this guy

this round was a series of subject patients which at the time seemed like the impact of these songs actually inspired repeatedly searching the sky for their targets and certainly coming today there was still a lot of confusion about what exactly happened including whether or not a missile had actually landed in riyadh at today's regular briefing some eighteen hours later the military conceded that it was nowhere near wiping out the rocks missile launch and

capability and been tried once again to clarify what happened in the missile attack in riyadh are reports indicated that six scud missiles were fired are patriot batteries successfully engaged all six during the engagement set riyadh there was some collateral damage to a building near riyadh airbase however we have no reports beyond that all local and very reports suggest that it was debris from an intercepted skype or possibly a patriot lasorda malfunction as to why are in iraq is targeting riyadh to actually hit targets or to frighten the population of a little joke if they thought they could to know iraqis trying to do pursue it obviously have to have to try to get into their mind

i would only say that whatever the reason i think the results of their efforts have been very feeble what tells me that we just get attacked we have seen very corny and it was not just an isolated scared that was fired several minutes past another so in order to want to kind of attack it to me signals that iraq still has the capability to coordinate own launch of these missiles and haven't come in greenwich in a way so that the defenses the patriots have to react very quickly and what we need to try to saturate the capability of the anti missile defenses the patriots to react quickly if you have a number of patriots the radars tracking him one missile and it's very easy for a totally easy to find in the sense that we have a number of targets enemy targets coming on radar hear any reports from a similar attack and iran at the same

time the va via the way you have to manage the situation is very difficult we also saw a number of friendly allied aircraft transports that were flying through the area that time five minutes after the sirens went off the yellow widebody transport came by about two or three thousand feet and a few minutes later probably fifteen or twenty a pan am seven forty seven i landed at an airport in the area so not only i think we're trying to target the incoming missiles with nature that you're not hitting america but then most of the tanks also had an effect on people who live in riyadh improperly arm and for the first time many of them were afraid since the year he's in the muscles sort of the public the public areas and distinctly within upset about this think of his

advisers and they could get on the gun a thing we are asking since long since three days i'm looking for the gas mask there is no yes most in riyadh was gay did you maybe ben carson people go up against most we're rebuilding gets meanwhile saudi arabia's capital city though long as they face the prospect of another night of being a target the skies over the saudi capital were quiet today there was one wrestler and iran in eastern saudi arabia a pentagon official said an iraqi nestle fell into the persian gulf as the persian gulf area war continues for the six day communities back in this country celebrated the birthday of the reverend martin luther king jr there were marches and parades and cities throughout the nation

like this one in kingsville with the war the large numbers of black men and women who were fighting were much in people's thoughts about the mayor maynard jackson spoke of a service at ebenezer baptist church this morning there's a notion that we saw about thirty percent of that changed in the desert african american as i heard someone say what that's not a rational argument because this is the volunteer i mean that's a valid point we do understand the reason why so many like people volunteer is because the options available to us on the outside the household that sentiment was echoed by many blacks in chicago were correspondent elizabeth record some opinions about the war today and

the mood was somber commemorations is the government regime in chicago really saddened by today's gulf war and i believe the best way we can pay tribute to dr king would be to say andrew ho ho about what dr king would be saying that is a war that worries about him his role oh you could be found in support of the more year ahead of the branch of the end of a lace ep that sponsored the event said that was not surprising then a disproportionate numbers of blacks in this fiasco it's my understanding statistics to differ but there seems to be a postcard of someone there are about fifty seven percent of overall servicemen americans and those are going to be more representative and congressman hayes indicates that sixty three percent of those service personnel from chicago at the block i think that's of concern to us a recent usa today poll so the whites are nearly twice as likely to support the war as

blacks most blacks we spoke to did support the war did so with reluctance it's really nice days the warriors even overshadowed chicago mayoral context though candidate danny davis has taken a position against the war again because of the high number of minorities in the gulf i go beyond you

almost everyone has a different statistical tie participation in the war and it is clear that the black community feel strongly that it is continuing to share the actual statistics at the pentagon show that blacks make up just under twenty two percent of the combined forces in the gulf and black talk radio in chicago this morning there was some support for the troops at almost no support for the war david to have gotten me in pain for them and they need to pull out of this mythical in a more in the court in a high i'm not against our true of our reports are true i began the policy that puts all of them we have no idea over there it is right here in the good old usa longtime activist lu palmer's as many blacks cannot find a rationale for the

war but we have no basis in that reach our national interest is threatened we have not been attacked by any of those people are and consequently we have no business world and the money that has just been gunned down the drain should be used to stabilize this country so the divisions between blacks and whites over the war appears date and most here say is likely to get deeper as the war continues once again the main stories about the gulf war president bush and other allied leaders accused the rack of a war crime in sending prisoners to possible scenarios the international red cross or the human shield policy violated the geneva convention the iraqi ambassador to the united nations said on the

newshour the iraqis not use prisoners as human shields another american planes was bringing the us total to nine and the allied traveled to thirteen and enron was a law that would complete coverage and analysis of the war an adult punch and wear thank you and deny funding for the newshour has been provided by pepsico and that's telling and by at and t and made possible by the financial support of viewers like you and the corporation for public broadcasting nice

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