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try to keep prices stable.
The United States seized the first
opportunity for a nighttime attack
after time ran out on a United Na
tions deadline for Iraq to relinquish
1 Kuwait or face war. The deadline
expired at midnight Tuesday EST
—Wednesday morning in Baghdad.
Saddam, whose armies overran
Kuwait in a lighting strike 5 , /2
months ago, haa defied economic
sanctions, threats of force and diplo
matic appeals, declaring the oil-rich
emirate to be irrevocably part of
Iraq.
“Our goal is not the conquest of
Iraq,” Bush said in an address broad
cast nationwide Wednesday night,
after allied warplanes thundered off
to seek out their targets. “It is the lib
eration of Kuwait.”
In the Iraqi capital, air raid sirens
wailed as wave after wave of war
planes filled the starlit sky, and red-
and-green tracer fire erupted. “This
feels like we’re in the center of hell,”
said CNN’s Bernard Shaw in Bagh
dad.
Television carried sound reports
from Iraq via satellite, but telephone
service was cut. American Tele-
E hone & Telegraph Co. said it had
>st communication with Iraq.
At the United Nations, U.S. Am
bassador Thomas R. Pickering
promised that Iraq could avoid fur
ther punishment by beginning a
complete, unconditional withdrawal
from Kuwait. The pledge came in a
private meeting with the Security
Council, according to a text of his
statement obtained early today by
The Associated Press.
In the United States, anti-war pro
tests, which had grown in intensity in
the days leading up to the fighting,
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involved. But Powell said Iraqi com
mand and control centers were
prime targets of the first wave of air
craft.
Only the United States, Britain,
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait partici
pated in the initial attacks, Cheney
said, although 28 nations are part of
the multinational force confronting
Iraq.
French military forces did not
take part in the first assault, but a
dozen French planes took part in the
later attacks. France’s defense min
ister said four French planes were
hit by fire, but that all returned
safely to Saudi Arabia.
redoubled in numbers and passion
with the outbreak of war. Club
swinging police dispersed hundreds
of demonstrators near the White
House.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney,
briefing reporters in Washington,
would provide no casualty reports
from the initial attack. But he said
the operation “appears to have gone
very, very well.”
Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the al
lied offensive met “no air resistance”
from Iraq’s air force.
Powell and Cheney declined to
discuss specifics of the operation —
even to confirm the types of aircraft
Vandiver
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activities,” he said.
Vandiver said Iraqi President Sad
dam Hussein might decide to sur
render.
“Hussein could win by losing,”
Vandiver said. “By shaking his fists
at the big guys and thumbing his
nose at the West, he’s shown the
Arab world he has moxie. If his ulti
mate goal is to be an Arab leader, he
could surrender and still fulfill his
goals.”
He said lessons learned from the
Vietnam conflict aided in the plan
ning of this war.
“We learned a lesson from Viet
nam,” Vandiver said. “Don’t do a
halfway job. Do it quick and give it
everything you got. i tns is a total
commitment.”
A total commitment to war ini
tially sent oil prices soaring to $40 a
barrel on world financial markets af
ter the announcement.
Ted Poth at Piper Chevron said
he expected $2 a gallon for gasoline
at his station by this morning. He al
ready has talked to his distributor
who said it will increase by at least 75
cents.
“I didn’t think at first it would go
that high, but now, it might do it,”
Poth said. “It’s crazy. Business has
been flowing in steady since the an
nouncement. It’s panic buying.”
Aggieland Mobil said it also had
seen a steady stream of customers
since the attack was announced.
H&M Texaco on Texas Avenue
had lines this evening and Diamond
Shamrock on Harvey Road had cars
three deep waiting at the pumps.
According to news reports
Wednesday, Mobil, Chevron, Con
oco and Unocal froze gasoline
prices. Other companies are ex
pected to follow suit. Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, R-Conn., warned oil
companies the American public will
not tolerate oil companies’ profi
teering from the war with Iraq.
Wednesday, President George
Bush authorized the sale of $1 bil
lion barrels of oil a day on the open
market from the nation’s Strategic
Petroleum Reserves.
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