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Two Brazilian cattle ranchers are sentenced in the murder of an environmentalist.
And Haitians go to the polls in another try at democracy for the Caribbean island country.
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This is Daybreak Sunday on CNN with Patrick Greenlaw and Susan Rook
from the CNN Center in Atlanta.
Good Sunday morning everyone and welcome.
Here's the latest. A Brazilian cattle rancher and his son have each been sentenced
to 19 years in prison for the murder of rainforest defender Chico Mendez.
Daryl Alves de Silva was convicted of planning the December 1988 attack.
His son had confessed to shooting Mendez but had claimed he was acting alone.
The 19 year sentence, by the way, was less than the maximum 30 year penalty the prosecution had requested.
Now the Mendez trial focused international attention on the Amazon
and its struggles over the fate of the rainforest.
Marina Mirabella has more.
Mendez was murdered in December of 1988 outside his home.
Chico Mendez had spent years defending the Amazon rainforest,
fighting ranchers who burned trees to clear land for cattle.
His murder provoked an international outcry.
For many he became an ecological martyr.
Supporters of Mendez say the two ranchers are just part of a larger conspiracy
involving powerful landowners and politicians.
There are a lot of other ranchers and landlords involved in this conspiracy
who are responsible for other crimes, not only Chico Mendez's murder,
and these people are untouched.
At least 50 rubber tappers have been murdered since Mendez was killed,
and authorities have had trouble finding people to serve on the jury.
But the murder of Chico Mendez has raised environmental awareness in Brazil.
Many are optimistic justice will be done.
In the past it was not so common to have a rich farmer being judged because he killed a rubber tapper.
Now the situation has changed. I think it's the beginning of the change in Brazilian society.
The country's president, Fernando Collor de Mello, reacting to international pressure,
has promised to limit burning in the rainforest.
But the ravaging of the Amazon continues.
It's not just wealthy landowners who are destroying the rainforest.
Every year thousands of poor Brazilians leave the cities and invade the Amazon looking for a better life.
Environmentalists say as long as Brazil struggles with its overwhelming economic and social problems,
it's unlikely Chico Mendez's dream of preserving the Amazon will be realized.
Marina Mirabella for CNN in Rio de Janeiro.
The Caribbean nation of Haiti will make another attempt to move towards democracy today.
Polls opened just over an hour ago and turnout is expected to be very heavy
as workers for the candidates tried to rally voters.
Former World Bank economist Marc Benzane and the Catholic priest Jean-Bretande Aristide
are considered the frontrunners in the presidential race.
110 seats in the country's two-house congress are also at stake.
Haiti's last attempt at democracy three years ago ended with 37 deaths on election day.
Less than a month remains before the United Nations deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait,
but efforts to arrange high-level talks between the United States and Iraq appear deadlocked.
Iraq yesterday canceled its foreign ministers' meetings with U.S. President Bush in Washington tomorrow.
The spokesman for Mr. Bush says that decision reaffirms Iraqi unwillingness to deal seriously with the issue.
A U.S. congressman who visited the Gulf says allies are not bearing their full share of costs for the crisis.
It's estimated that Desert Shield will cost more than $36 billion.
The allies have pledged about $10 billion of that.
The congressman says the entire free world is affected by the crisis
and he wants the allies to commit more manpower and money.
He says the U.S. shoulders 71% of that burden.
Allied support is woefully inadequate.
So far, only Britain and France have sent ground forces and then a mere 10% of our own commitment.
Germany and Japan can't send troops, but they can provide money for us and for countries hit by the crisis.
Thus far, it's been too little and too slow in coming.
One example, Saudi Arabia has promised $4 billion,
but that it could earn more than $43 billion from windfall oil profits because of the crisis.
The U.S. Navy stopped two ships in the Red Sea yesterday loaded with what's believed to be cars stolen from Kuwait by Iraqi invaders.
The ships were ordered to return to the Jordanian port of Aqaba.
This boarding was part of U.S. and allied efforts to enforce an embargo against Iraq.
An Ohio chapter of the Campfire Girls organization is trying to help magazines meant for U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia get past the Saudi censors.
The group says it will use crayons to draw clothing onto models wearing bathing suits or other scant clothing.
The chapter's leader says the girls got the idea after hearing about strict Saudi dress codes for women.
So to come on Daybreak Sunday, the U.S. sends food to the Soviet Union while millions of Americans go hungry.
And this holiday season is for the birds, says the Anabon Society kicks off its annual Christmas count.
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A charter bus accident near Elmira, New York yesterday
has left at least 28 people injured.
The bus hit a four-wheel drive vehicle on an icy bridge,
slammed through a guardrail and then fell down an embankment.
The driver of the four-wheel drive has been charged with drunken driving.
The bus was en route to a New York State prison
where passengers were going to visit their inmate relatives.
A tape recording may explain last Wednesday's passenger train wreck in Boston.
At least 267 people were injured when an Amtrak train from Washington
smashed into the rear of a commuter train.
Federal investigators are examining a tape recovered from the wreckage.
It may hold an electronic record of the train's speed and braking patterns.
The Amtrak engineers told investigators the brakes appeared to fail
when he tried to slow the train as it approached Back Bay Station.
Another plane load of U.S. aid is on its way to the Soviet Union grip
by crushing shortages of food and medical supplies.
But the help is creating hard feelings among America's own homeless and hungry.
They think that charity should begin at home.
CNN's Vaughn Morrison has this report.
A jet operated by the private relief agency AmeriCares
is loaded with food and medical supplies for the Soviet Union.
Upon arrival in Moscow, crates are unpacked, headed, it's hoped,
for shoppers who've endured empty store shelves and long lines for food.
But for many in this country, the lines are no shorter, the cupboards no better stocked.
Why waste and shoot over there when your own sister, your own brother,
your own kin people needs help?
And you sit here shooting money over there.
Why in the hell do you do it?
The U.S. government says as many as three million Americans are homeless.
An estimated 20 million don't have enough to eat.
It's a situation that frustrates those trying to help.
It's an insult to us to see the federal government,
the highest government in the land, turning their back on homeless people here in the nation
and supporting the Soviet Union.
There are families in the streets of America hungry this day.
I can understand why we would go 10,000 miles of home
and feed someone who have never done nothing but been on destroying this country
and not feeding the people here at home.
It's an atrocity.
President Bush approved a $1 billion food aid package for the Soviet Union on Wednesday.
Those who support it say vital national interests are at stake
as Gorbachev seeks to keep his crumbling empire together.
There may be the danger of civil war, disintegration,
and generally a massive wave of emigration across Europe
which will destabilize the new fragile democracies in Eastern Europe.
The need for food relief has been further questioned by reports of widespread pilferage
and food rotting on idled trains.
Meanwhile, for the homeless of America, a cold, hungry winter looms on the horizon.
Vaughn Morrison, CNN Atlanta.
The woman who helped make Grant Wood's American Gothic,
one of the most recognizable American paintings, is dead.
Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham was the model for the tight-lipped farm woman.
She died Friday at a Menlo Park, California nursing home at the age of 91.
She had said she would have had a very drab life without the celebrity the painting brought her.
When Daybreak Sunday comes back, it was a battle between two quarterbacks in the Bills-Giants game.
And both of them lost yesterday. Tom West will explain why.
Coming up in sports right after this.
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Two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL both injured yesterday.
Hopefully not too seriously. However, they both did not play in the second half.
Right, and for Buffalo it was a case where they won the big battle,
and the war could be in trouble for the next couple of weeks.
A couple of the NFL's top guns went head-to-head in Giants Stadium yesterday.
But neither Buffalo's Jim Kelly nor New York's Phil Simms was around at the finish.
And what's worse for the two playoff-bound clubs, they aren't sure when either will be back.
It was an absolutely miserable day at the Meadowlands Giants Stadium, rainy, chilly.
But Jim Kelly was on fire in the first quarter, bringing his team back after being down 7-0 in this touchdown pass to Andre Reed.
And Bill Parcell's club then found itself down 14-7.
But here in the second quarter, Kelly, you can't see it, but he's taken out by his teammate, Will Wolford, rolled into his knee.
He sprained his left knee. He's probably gone for the last two regular season games.
Phil Simms in the third quarter didn't hit anybody, just went down.
He sprained the arch on his right foot. Probably not as serious as Kelly's injury, but he may not be playing next week.
So the Giants turned to Jeff Hostetler. He had all kinds of problems in the second half whenever the Giants got in scoring position.
And the Bills won it 17-13 and are now 12-2 headed into a big game with Miami next week while the Giants slipped to 11-3.
Washington beat New England yesterday and the Redskins now 9-5 clinched their first playoff berth in three years.
The Pats have lost 12 straight.
The highest scoring game in the 15-year history of the Independence Bowl produced no winner last night in Shreveport.
That's because Louisiana Tech managed a 29-yard field goal with four seconds left to tie Maryland at 34.
The Terps had taken the lead with 52 seconds remaining.
And the Division 1-AA Championship was decided yesterday afternoon in Statesboro, Georgia.
The Eagles winning their fourth title in the last six years, 36-13 over Nevada.
Coach Dean Smith of North Carolina called it the best game his 10th ranked Tar Heels have played this basketball season.
They only committed seven turnovers against No. 21 Alabama and the front line almost scored at will.
They were playing in the deemed dome and in the first half North Carolina opens with an 18-4 run King Rice feeding Eric Montross.
And the freshman slams it in against Wim Sanderson's club.
Alabama did show some life. Watch Brian Linecaster dish to Robert Horry.
A jam! That one should be in the NBA slam dunk competition.
The Tar Heels though come back. Rick Fox draws the defense. Pete Chilcutt not as artistic but it gets the job done.
More passing. King Rice the alley-oop to Rick Fox who dunks it in.
And Sanderson's club down at 8 at the half. It didn't get any better in the second stanza.
The outside basket, the three-pointer from George Lynch and North Carolina wins it 95-79.
Another top ten results from college hoops. Nevada Las Vegas still undefeated. Larry Johnson with a career high 35.
Syracuse wins by 15. Georgetown suffered its first non-conference loss at home in eight years surprised by the Miners.
UCLA goes to 7-0. Ohio State has yet to trail in a game and has beaten six cupcakes actually by an average margin of 43 points.
And Indiana, Bob Knight was ejected in the first half. It didn't matter. The Hoosiers rolled over Western Michigan.
Baseball's hot stove league heated up yesterday with a trio of deals.
Free agent Jack Clark left San Diego to sign with Boston for $8.7 million over three years.
American League Cy Young winner Bob Welch has decided to stay put.
The 27-game winner committed to four more years in Oakland for an undisclosed amount but it's probably over three mill a year.
And overloaded in the outfield the Dodgers traded Hubie Brooks back to New York where he played from 1980 to 84 for left-handed pitcher Bob Ojeda.
I'll be back with more in an hour including some NBA action but we've got all of yesterday's pro results right now on our morning roll.
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Albania is reportedly free of unrest today after troops regained control yesterday of
four cities where riots took place last week.
The newly created Democratic opposition party says it supports President Remes Aliya's deployment
of troops and says rioters are not related to the democracy movement.
Aliya blamed the violence on forces incited by domestic and foreign enemies.
Albania is Europe's last hardline communist republic.
Press reports in Seoul, South Korea say the Soviet Union has for the first time apologized
for the downing of a Korean Airlines jet seven years ago.
269 people died when the 747 was destroyed by Soviet missiles after it strayed over Soviet
airspace.
Today, Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze reportedly expressed regret over the incident
to his South Korean counterpart.
South Korean and Soviet officials were wrapping up three days of meetings in Moscow.
Coming up on Daybreak Sunday, counting cardinals, listing loons, reckoning robins, and tallying
thrushes.
And the whole sky lit up completely with just a red flash and from that there was a wall
of fire which was 300 feet in the air and then mushroomed out.
We thought it was a shooting star or something like that.
This was orange and it was moving rather haphazardly, almost like something tumbling.
It just disappeared and then about five seconds later, possibly six, there was this absolutely
massive sort of red glow in the sky that went firstly upwards and then out and then this
sort of bright orange center.
The aircraft while at cruising altitude and while precisely on its flight plan crashed
in the town of Lockerbie in Scotland.
It's a heart attack and they just need to vent their pain and their suffering.
Each one is comfortable with each other.
I want the families of all these people to know that our hearts go out to them.
And that we loved all these people and they'll be missed.
What happens when the relentless search for justice clouds the truth?
It's just some dumb mistake somebody made.
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As you know, birds count with the National Audubon Society and starting this weekend,
the environmentalist organization is counting birds. Patty Peniche reports from Chatsworth, California.
Okay, there we go, flying across.
Arthur Langton has been tracking and counting birds once a year for the past decade.
He's part of the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas bird count.
Last year, 42,000 people logged 119 million birds.
That long tail just gives it away. It looks like a little version of a mockingbird.
A shrunken mockingbird. That's him.
It was started around the turn of the century and the purpose is simply going out and finding all the birds
in a given area that exist in the early winter.
The survey, which covers North and South America, is an unscientific one since the actual numbers of birds spotted
may vary depending on how many bird watchers there are.
It's a sloppy sort of counting methodology, but because of the sheer amount of data,
we're able to track at least over the long term population declines and population increases,
geographical shifting of populations.
And what they found is not good.
Environmentalists generally agree that bird populations are dwindling in North America.
Declining forest lands and pollution are the major causes.
Scientists have begun keenly watching bird populations.
Birds are indeed very efficient monitors of the quality of their environment.
In fact, we have to live in the same place as they do, and so as their populations are severely threatened,
it says something about what we're doing to our own environment.
It's an isolated bush and right on the top of it is a scrubjack.
Oh yeah, I got him.
Very pretty as a matter of fact.
Miners used to send canaries underground to test for poisonous gases.
Birds may once again be on the front line of an environmental future that humans themselves will have to face.
Patty Peniche for CNN, Chatsworth, California.
Coming up next on CNN's Big Story, Kuwait Diaries.
Where were you?
Home for the holidays, Westerners are free to leave Iraq and occupied Kuwait,
but they're emerging with words and pictures of a destroyed nation.
Tales of terror inside Kuwait, next on the Big Story.
More news at the top of the hour. I'm Susan Rook at CNN Center in Atlanta.
And I'm Patrick Greenlaw. Thanks for watching. We'll see you then.
The U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait led some 50 Americans and other Westerners onto American soil yesterday.
Nathaniel Howell and four other American diplomats refused to leave their besieged embassy
until all the trapped Americans who wished to leave Kuwait and Iraq were allowed to do so.
Hundreds of former hostages have left during the past week,
bringing with them from Kuwait stories of death, destruction and despair.
It was a tired bunch of Americans that arrived on the flight from Baghdad,
though they were nonetheless ecstatic.
It's absolutely wonderful. I couldn't believe it until we touched down.
Several said Sunday was the first time they had seen sunlight in four months.
They hid everywhere they could in Kuwait City, fearing capture by the Iraqis.
It's terrible. In air conditioning duct work, attics, rooftops.
For four months, all the time I was hiding out.
Where did you hide? How did you do it?
We were hiding in a house. We had soldiers knocking on our door.
We just wouldn't answer.
Away from their guards, the former hostages opened up.
Nearly all supported President Bush's handling of the crisis,
and several said it was time for military action.
The 15th comes and we have to remove them by force. That's what we should do.
I think most of the people will tell you what I said,
that they think the U.S. government should finish it off.
And January 15th can't come soon enough.
The hostages had just a few hours sleep in Frankfurt, but many were up early.
After having Iraqi television as their main source of information,
it was nice to have other options.
You better keep that one.
15 to go.
Bittersweet feelings, though, despite the newfound freedom.
The feeling I have is one of being overjoyed, first of all,
and then one of anger for being held captive for four months.
It doesn't taste like anything. It's where you don't have a bad taste in your mouth.
Freedom is just being able to talk to you right now.
But the taste of a morning cigar and a glance at the day's headlines had to be special.
The hostages formed a large breakfast club, their first calm moment together.
It was a universal complaint by the hostages that the food in Iraq was terrible,
but for some it improved as their release date approached.
Nevertheless, this hotel breakfast represented a feast.
After being told what to eat for four months, there were enough choices to make mouths water.
Upstairs, the U.S. Baghdad Embassy cat, Bosch, also getting his paws on freedom.
Bosch traveled incognito as a female cat named Candy, complete with exit visa.
It was a struggle for survival, and he overcame that with the help of everybody that was at the embassy.
And I feel that now that he's healthy, that he should enjoy a nice free life.
Bosch is headed to a new life in Minneapolis.
Some of his fellow travelers say they'd like to return someday to Kuwait for work.
For now, we'll catch up on their life in America with family and friends.
Their U.S.-chartered flight to freedom arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
The board were 156 returnees, mostly Americans who had been held hostage,
plus a handful of non-American family members and Canadians.
Their four-month nightmare was over.
One who took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City told of looting and devastation by Iraqi troops.
I've never seen a city that's so trashed in my life.
It is like the aftermath of World War III in that city.
Every fifth house along the major roads, I swear, every fifth house has been turned into a fortress.
It's been bricked up, bolted up with little peepholes.
The military occupies a tremendous...
You just can't go anywhere without encountering military people.
Another American who had hidden in Kuwait said he survived thanks to help from local people.
The city's just changed. It's not the same.
The Iraqi influence has permeated everything,
and the freedom that we so take for granted as Americans is no longer there.
One passenger had to be placed in a wheelchair after arriving.
Some former hostages had been oil industry workers, others embassy staff.
Just to be on friendly soil without the possibility of somebody coming up and grabbing me off the street
or breaking into my house, total relief.
I was just... I'm beyond words.
I sat in my hotel room and cried last night.
I don't think we have a choice.
We can't let this man go on with his naked aggression.
If they can't take it away, they'll dismantle it.
If they can't dismantle it, they'll break it.
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The long siege is over.
Trapped inside the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait for over four months,
American Ambassador Nathaniel Howell arrived in Frankfurt, Germany
on a charter flight from Baghdad.
We're very happy to be here.
We're very delighted that American citizens who want to leave Kuwait have left.
This morning I closed the embassy.
Did not close the embassy, but I vacated it. The flag flies.
Howell and four other U.S. diplomats stayed inside the embassy
until the Bush administration decided it was time to pull out.
They had holed up with other Americans with no electricity or water
as the Iraqi army surrounded the compound, not permitting anyone in or out.
They survived on canned tuna fish and rice.
Ambassador Howell said in Frankfurt there were no sandwiches.
The bread had run out.
But the ambassador was more concerned about the safety of Americans still in Kuwait.
It was his warden system that kept the embassy in touch with those on the run.
Wayne Cox of Orlando, Florida, was one of them.
He remains worried about the Kuwaitis who provided shelter.
We want them freed, and they're still basically hostages themselves.
And it's a country of fear right now.
We were living hiding ourselves, but the people that are fearing are the Kuwaiti citizens themselves.
It was clear, though, Ambassador Howell waited until he was sure no one needed his help.
There are no American that I'm aware of that wants to leave Kuwait, in Kuwait.
On hand to greet Ambassador Howell and the other Americans,
a Kuwaiti family seeking information on loved ones.
I want to salute the American ambassador in Kuwait for his... he was so brave.
Striding through the lobby of a Frankfurt hotel Friday morning,
Nathaniel Howell looked like your typical business traveler.
But as the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Howell had just returned from a nightmarish journey.
Still, the morning after, felt a little better.
Left well, and left a little bit of Kuwait in the bathtub.
It was the first time he was able to use fresh bathing water in months.
Howell and the others were forced to use water from the swimming pool in Kuwait for drinking and cleansing.
Four other U.S. diplomats who endured the siege joined Howell in the evacuation from Kuwait.
They were all in good spirits and did not appear to show any noticeable signs of distress from the grueling months in the embassy.
More than 20 other Americans and some Canadians joined the diplomats for the U.S. leg of the trip.
This is expected to be the last flight for freedom from Kuwait.
Several hundred Americans will remain there or in Iraq.
They have dual nationality citizenship or are married to Iraqis unable to obtain exit permits.
Howell felt anybody who did want to leave Kuwait has already done so.
Well, how does civilization feel?
Like it always did, better.
There were over a hundred people on that plane and I didn't meet one person who had any objection to the president's policy.
By that you mean sending 400,000 proofs to the gulf or letting sanctions work or which?
I mean the actions that the president has taken.
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How you read it and what you think.
It was President Bush's first meeting with seven of the American hostages
released by Saddam Hussein.
And should anyone dare suggest that Iraq be rewarded for their release?
Hell no. Not one thing.
You don't reward a kidnapper.
You don't reward somebody that has done something
they shouldn't have done in the first place.
During the 60-minute meeting with the former hostages and their families,
no one disagreed with Mr. Bush's policies.
And I support the policy he is now following
after being in Kuwait for that period of time
and seeing the conditions and what is going on in that country.
I do believe that the policy is currently being followed,
including the sanctions to be fully complied,
including the military forces that the U.S. has prepared there
in the event they are needed.
All these policies I think are necessary and I think will succeed.
All I can say is that I do support the President's actions
because it was one of his actions and one of the things that heartened us
while we were in hiding in Kuwait.
They did most of the talking.
The President thanked us for our experiences and our efforts
and welcomed us and assured us the situation will be taken care of.
But Mr. Bush didn't explain how.
One of the things is the release of the hostages,
release of myself and my family and all the other hostages,
is not going to be sufficient for Iraq to be allowed not to comply with all the sanctions.
Ralph Montgomery, a Florida architect, said he was afraid the whole time he was in hiding.
If an attack had come, then we were prepared for that,
just as we were prepared for an attack from the Iraqis,
just for an attack for having the door broken down and having us taken somewhere.
Pennsylvania attorney Ernest Alexander remained in hiding
after his wife and two children were evacuated.
You never had an attack while you were there?
I was hoping you would attack while I was there, quite frankly.
How long would that have been?
Why so?
Those of us who were in Kuwait thought that before the majority of people got moved up to Iraq,
that all of us would have a much better opportunity of surviving an attack
or escaping if we were still in Kuwait rather than Iraq.
And some say they would go back.
Because I would have that empathy for the people and I would want to help them rebuild
and I would want to further the feeling of compassion that I have for them and that they have for us.
We lived in a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood.
These people knew we were there, they knew they were our neighbors,
but no word was ever given.
We were secure because they chose not to know that we were there.
A senior administration official says the release of the hostages was a welcome surprise,
but they still detect no softening in Saddam Hussein's position.
As one official says, the Iraqi leader has not blinked yet.
The United Nations resolution is very clear as it regards January 15th
and I will continue now to work for a peaceful solution.
I really wish that the world would know that Kuwait is being depopulated,
dismantled under this Mussolini, this Middle East Mussolini must be got rid of,
its forces must be reduced,
and Iraq must pay the full cost of replacing Kuwait in the condition it was before.
They have absolutely no intention of going.
Every day they build more and more bunkers and dig in deeper and deeper.
Talks between Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz and President Bush have been canceled.
In our nightly special report, we'll talk with a military analyst about the effect this deadlock
could have on peace in the Middle East.
Members of Congress with the troops in Saudi Arabia are sounding more ominous
as they cast doubt on a negotiated settlement.
And we'll look at how troops are preparing for possible chemical warfare
as CNN begins a special series, Deadline in the Desert.
I'm Dave Michaels of the CNN Center in Atlanta.
And I'm David French in Washington. Welcome everyone.
The UN deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait is a month away,
but prospects for talks between the US and Iraq are eroding.
Iraq today canceled a meeting planned for Monday between its foreign minister and President Bush,
and the impasse over when the US Secretary of State will go to Baghdad continues.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says Iraq would rather plunge into pools of blood up to our chests,
that's a quote, than retreat from its principles.
CNN's Mitch Leppard has more from Baghdad.
President Saddam Hussein went on television to blast the United Nations
for trying to impose its will on Iraq.
He called for jihad, or holy war, against not only Westerners,
but the wealthy oil sheiks who are financing the UN forces in the Gulf.
As that speech was broadcast, the information minister set a series of mixed signals on the need for peace,
but refusal to compromise on a way to get there.
Latif Jassim says for the Baker visit to occur, it must occur January 12th.
We picked a day and we told the American side that we are ready at 12th of January,
but they don't accept that day, so now we said that every president will fix a suitable day
and said to the foreign minister, you are welcome on that day.
Then Jassim explained there's an atmosphere of war in Iraq.
Atmosphere of war, I mean that the huge crowd of the forces in the Gulf
and America every day produce a new army and new soldiers.
What does this mean? This means atmosphere of war.
Two days ago, Minister Jassim told CNN Iraq would never withdraw from Kuwait, even if it means war.
Now, he's saying something new.
We cannot say anything before the dialogue.
Dialogue is very important for all the parts in this area.
The talks are vital, but U.S. Embassy Chargé, Joe Wilson, told reporters what he thought would happen
if there were no talks before the January 15th U.N. deadline for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.
They have got very accomplished diplomats in Washington, New York and the other capitals of the world,
so I have to assume that they do understand, but in the interest of ensuring that there is no misunderstanding
and the interest of ensuring that we have exhausted all diplomatic means prior to doing whatever needs to be done after January 15th,
the president has said that he is prepared to have these meetings.
Meanwhile, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat spent part of the day in Baghdad meeting with Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz.
In Amman, Arafat reportedly said any settlement of the crisis must be ratified at an Arab summit.
We are insisting the Arab dialogue.
Nevertheless, on Friday, President Bush said he was losing patience with Iraq over the question of meeting dates.
This latest announcement from Baghdad won't help.
Mitch Leppard, CNN, Baghdad.
Both sides are snarling and bickering over the deadlock on meeting dates.
CNN's Pam Olson reports an American reaction to Baghdad's sudden backing out of Monday's peace talks.
Even though President Bush is at Camp David, White House reaction was immediate.
A spokesman saying cancellation of the meeting is just a reaffirmation of the Iraqi unwillingness to deal seriously with the issue.
Congressional lawmakers in Saudi Arabia meeting with U.S. troops accused Saddam of stalling.
My sense is that the prospects of war are greater than they were two weeks ago,
in large part because of the way in which Hussein is using the meeting as a form of manipulation rather than serious discussion.
The Senate Majority Leader says he hopes the meetings can still be scheduled.
I think it's important that President Hussein hear directly from Secretary Baker.
On Capitol Hill, House Democrats had another complaint that the anti-Iraq allies are not contributing enough money for Operation Desert Shield.
They commend the White House for shoring up world opinion, but...
What they've been less able to do is to get the allies to really be a part of a real coalition.
It's been a coalition sometimes more in name than in real contribution.
The estimated total cost for Operation Desert Shield for fiscal year 1991 is almost $37 billion,
and the Democrats say the United States is picking up 71% of the tab.
Japan is giving just $2 billion even though it imports more than 64% of its oil from the Gulf.
Saudi Arabia, $4 billion, even though its oil profits this year are expected to exceed the cost of the entire Gulf operation.
And Germany promises to send just $1 billion.
The Germans to give $1 billion total with their huge economy and then say 43% of that should be in East German military equipment that they don't need and we don't really want is appalling.
Some lawmakers say it is not unreasonable to expect anti-Iraq allies to pay at least one half of the Persian Gulf cost.
And if they don't, the lawmakers say any future White House request for more assistance may be in jeopardy.
But a spokesman here says President Bush is satisfied with allied help thus far.
Pam Wilson, CNN, The White House.
After Iraq canceled Monday's talks with the U.S., European community leaders abruptly canceled their invitation for Tareq Aziz to stop by after his trip to Washington.
EC leaders wrapped up a two-day summit meeting in Rome.
They say they have no intention of meeting with the Iraqi foreign minister until after he meets with Mr. Bush.
They also issued a strong statement demanding Iraq pull out of Kuwait unconditionally.
Still to come in tonight's Gulf Crisis Special, the clock is ticking and troops in the Gulf are preparing for the worst.
We'll talk with the military analyst about prospects for war and the impasse over a date for talks between the U.S. and Iraq.
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And if we don't, who's going to take us seriously again?
If we don't, who's going to take a United Nations vote seriously?
With us now to talk about the impasse over the Gulf talks is William Taylor.
He holds a PhD in international relations and now is with the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
a Washington think tank.
Well, the Secretary of State in a previous administration,
what did you think of what Secretary Shultz had to say?
Quite frankly, David, I was surprised.
Secretary Shultz has been under deep cover for a long time
and all of a sudden today he chose to give his views on this crisis.
And it was surprising to me also that he finds himself very close to the view of Henry Kissinger.
And that is something has to be done sooner rather than later
and I think he was saying the offensive military power of Iraq has to be destroyed sooner or later.
When he used to battle with the Pentagon, it was quite another George Shultz.
Moving on, at the point we are now in time with the options that have been exercised,
how small is the corner we are in and Saddam Hussein?
Well, the clock is ticking.
You can debate whose side it works more in favor of,
whether Iraq needs more time or we need more time.
Clearly those who heard Secretary Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Colin Powell,
testify last week before the House Armed Services Committee,
they would like to have more time to have the forces in place
to launch an effective, successful offensive military action.
On the other hand, many of the diplomats, many of those in the State Department,
believe that too much time will let too many factors that we can't control intervene
and work to the advantage of Saddam Hussein.
Our heroic and exiting ambassador from Kuwait when he came back
said that he had noticed along the beaches some pretty terrific construction work being done by Iraq,
using this time for that.
Are the United States generals calculating the possible loss of life each day by Saddam Hussein?
In this just about every day, military planners who really don't know what option the president will adopt,
whether it's a short-range option to get Iraq out of Kuwait or do something further than that,
they're constantly changing their estimates, the courses of action they recommend.
But all this time that drags out, yes, it works to our advantage
in getting more forces on the ground for an offensive action,
but on the side of Iraq it gives them time to put in very heavy, carefully calculated defenses.
And by the way, not many people noticed that the minister of defense in Iraq last week was relieved.
He was about 70 to 75 years old, nobody knows.
And a new hardliner hero of the war with Iran, General Touma, Major General Touma, age 51,
an engineer who knows something about putting in defensive fortifications, is now the chief guy in defense.
So they're working on their defense. Time is on their side in that respect.
Saddam Hussein played his card about the dates, saying, no, I want them here January, you know.
What does that leave George Bush?
Well, you know, the president said, I believe it was yesterday,
I wish I hadn't said that it will be sometime between December 15 and January 15
when we exchange our ministers of defense, secretary of state, secretary of state.
I appreciate his candor, and I think most Americans do.
But there is a window now. We offered for Secretary Baker to go December 20 to January 3.
That's today unacceptable to Saddam Hussein. He wants it January the 12th.
And then later today he said, I will decide, Saddam Hussein, when this exchange of ministers of state will take place.
He's about to make some mistakes diplomatically, I think.
Well, President Bush has pointed out that he offered quite a menu, nearly half a month of the calendar, and that was refused.
Who's at fault more for the impasse?
On the timing, I think on our own side it was a very minor tactical mistake in the diplomatic long-range things that are going on right now, the exchanges.
I don't think it makes much difference.
We are pretty much in the driver's seat.
And if Saddam Hussein insists on calling the shots and he gets too close to January the 15th,
he may find he's buying more problems than he bargained for.
What kind?
Well, we're going to be right up against the time when the clock has ticked out to January the 15th.
And he may find a president of the United States and even a Congress that's just fed up with his approach, saying,
we know what you're doing, you're trying to divide the U.S. Congress, you're trying to divide the American public,
you're trying to get time to divide the multinational force, you're not getting away with it.
And here's your option.
We are compelling you out of Kuwait.
And you have no choice.
Now it comes down to the question of American resolve.
Saddam Hussein is gambling that the American populace isn't willing to spend what it takes for what it will get.
Saddam Hussein, through most of the kinds of analysis we can get, thinks he really understands the American public.
And what he is seeing now is open public debate over a crisis.
And he thinks this is terribly divisive and works to his favor.
And he doesn't understand that debate is the essence of democracy.
And he's lobbing a run into a buzzsaw when the debate's over.
Dr. Taylor, it's a pleasure to have you once again. Thank you.
David, a pleasure.
Okay.
Dave?
Thank you, David.
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says Iraq should pay a penalty for its invasion of Kuwait.
Speaking on CNN's Newsmaker Saturday, Mr. Kissinger said if Iraq's military is left unimpaired
after withdrawal, then the balance of power will again tilt toward Iraq once the 450,000 Americans leave.
Kissinger also believes Iraq can benefit by stalling the peace talks as long as possible.
Saddam Hussein has everything to gain by prolonging the process because the longer he can delay it,
the more the military option will become difficult.
And I think he must believe that if he can get it into March, when Ramadan, which is the month of fasting,
starts, he will be in a much stronger position to resist the pressures that might come from a military option.
Kissinger also thinks negotiations will be more effective if Iraq believes the U.S. is serious about the deadline.
As we mentioned a moment ago, there is a month left before the U.N. deadline for Iraq to leave Kuwait.
Tonight we begin a daily series of reports from different perspectives as the deadline in the desert approaches.
In this report, CNN military affairs correspondent, Wolf Blitzer, talks with military analyst Harry Summers.
There is a month until the January 15th deadline in the Gulf crisis.
Colonel Summers, is the United States right now ready to go to war?
No, we're not. We don't have enough sufficient heavy forces in place.
What we are doing now is the reconnaissance phase, that is, both with AWACS and with our satellites,
trying to determine exactly what the enemy dispositions are and the strength of his defenses.
Will the U.S. be ready January 15th?
By that time, we'll have most of our heavy forces in place from Europe and from the United States,
and we'll have beginning to at least have an offensive capability in the Gulf.
How would you envisage that scenario unfolding, the order from the President to the Pentagon,
go ahead and get Iraq out of Kuwait?
It would start with a massive air campaign, both by our land-based aircraft in Saudi Arabia,
the B-52 bombers, and carrier air, also naval air, from the carriers in the Gulf,
with the objective of destroying as much of Iraqis' war-making potential as possible,
neutralizing their air defenses, isolating the southern battlefield, and also gaining air control,
because without air control, nothing else is possible.
Do you think there's a need for a ground offensive as well?
Well, if we're lucky, the war could end in the beginning phase, but again, we can't count on it.
So I think the next phase would be an air-ground campaign with the allied forces, the U.S. Marines,
the allied forces, the lighter forces, trying to fix the enemy in place so he can't move,
and then as that is being done, our maneuver forces, our heavy Mech and Armored Divisions,
attacking to destroy the enemy in place.
Best case and worst case scenarios for the United States? How long does this operation last?
Best case, it could be over within a matter of days, but you can't bet on that.
I think we have to plan for a longer campaign, otherwise you run out of supplies and equipment.
What's your assessment? How long do you think it'll last?
I would think it'll either end very quickly with the collapse of the Iraqi Armed Forces,
or it will take several months at least to dislodge them.
Thank you, Colonel Summers.
Iraq is believed to have an estimated 500,000 troops massed in Kuwait and southern Iraq.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is urging Saddam Hussein to make, quote,
the courageous decision and withdrawal from Kuwait.
Speaking to the newly elected Egyptian parliament today,
Mubarak vows to defend all Arab states from further Iraqi aggression,
and he defends Egypt's support of the U.S.-led multinational force in Saudi Arabia.
Some Arab states have criticized Egypt's pro-American stand.
The U.S. has given Egypt more economic aid and forgiven debt in return for the help.
An Iraqi peace ship carrying milk and medicine for Iraqi children passed through the Suez Canal today.
More than 150 women and children from all over the world are on board.
They're hoping to reach Basra, Iraq, in three weeks.
It's not known if they will be stopped by ships enforcing the international economic embargo against Iraq.
Coming up in tonight's Gulf Crisis Special,
we'll tell you how U.S. troops in the region are keeping their spirits up during hard times.
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The ball is now in Baghdad's court, and Saddam Hussein's gonna have to react to it.
I hope he reacts positively, but if he doesn't, then if the ultimatum goes through, we will
have to back it up.
And I think the president will have to back up his words.
A military helicopter carrying three members of the Missouri National Guard crashed in
dense fog, killing all aboard.
The bodies of two men and a woman, along with a wrecked helicopter, were found near Cleveland,
Texas, just north of Houston.
The Huey Chopper was being flown from Missouri to Houston, where it was going to be shipped
into the Persian Gulf.
But as I said, it sounded as though the chopper was having engine trouble before it crashed.
With more than 300,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East, all are doing their best to maintain
their morale.
With a human deadline for Iraq to get out of Kuwait nearing, the possibility of war
seems more real each day, and especially to them.
We have two reports on how the troops are dealing with this grim reality, beginning
with CNN's Jim Clancy.
A marine assault in the desert.
Be advised, we have only four in our platoon left, over.
This day, it's a training exercise.
A month from now, the casualties could be for real.
As the U.N. imposed deadline approaches, some observers wonder whether four months of marching
in the desert, chipping paint on the decks of ships, and unloading supplies on airfields
hasn't sapped the morale and fighting strength of U.S. forces.
You read the news one day, and it sounds like, my God, we're going to war tomorrow.
And you read the news the next day, no, we're going to move toward diplomatic solution.
For some U.S. soldiers, the sacrifice of a long-term deployment was unexpected.
I left my son and my daughter behind, and it makes it pretty hard being separated because
they're both just babies.
And my husband's over here also.
Others considered quitting the service when they were ordered to deploy to Saudi Arabia.
I said, no, I said, I'm going over here for this time, but I'll make it back.
I ain't going back twice.
That's it.
Morale here is great, isn't it?
The real experts on morale, the foot soldiers at the fore, say all the complaints they've
heard come from the rear, from troops bored by months of inaction.
Up here, they say, it's different.
Morale's great.
Morale's real great.
I keep everybody motivated by getting everybody together at night, and we talk about different
families and stuff like that, and that's what keeps morale up.
And doing it on the train really keeps morale up.
Support from home doesn't hurt either.
Thousands of letters.
A U.S. soldier have found their way to grateful troops, and many Americans are sending more
than words.
We have more candy and cookies than any human interested in weight control could possibly
eat, and we love every minute of it.
How is the morale among the troops?
In some measure, it can be found in why each soldier, Marine, seaman, or flier volunteered
for service.
I had enjoyed going to college, you know, or to pay for college or anything like that.
You know, I just wanted to be a Marine.
When I was really young and all the way through school, I just went ahead and did it, and
I'm not sorry for it.
Thousands of miles from home, and perhaps less than a month away from the battlefield,
U.S. soldiers admit their morale has had its ups and downs.
But they say they've made it this far, and they're prepared to go all the way, if that's
what they're called on to do.
Jim Clancy, CNN in eastern Saudi Arabia.
These are gunners who know just how frail are the prospects of peace in the Gulf, for
their lives may depend on last-ditch diplomacy.
One month is left before the U.N. deadline expires and the Royal Artillery goes into
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All agree the casualties will be high.
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British forward units are putting much of their trust in high-tech warfare, including
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As diplomatic breakthrough diminishes, the relation that the practicing will super, the
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A quick recap of today's key news from the Gulf.
Baghdad has backed out of Monday's talks between Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarek Aziz and President
Bush.
Iraq says it's because the two countries can't agree on a date for talks later on between
Secretary of State Baker and Saddam Hussein.
Some Democratic senators visiting the troops in Saudi Arabia say the deadlock over peace
talks makes war a lot more likely.
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in Congress say Americans are picking up too much of the
tab for Operation Desert Shield.
Allied support is woefully inadequate.
So far, only Britain and France have sent ground forces and then a mere 10 percent of
our own commitment.
Germany and Japan can't send troops, but they can provide money for us and for countries
hit by the crisis.
Thus far, it's been too little and too slow in coming.
Kephart says the administration will ask allies for another $20 billion for the Gulf operation
early next year.
With the deadline in the desert approaching, American troops are getting ready for the
possibility of chemical warfare.
CNN's Mike Capps looks at that training in one Marine encampment in Saudi Arabia.