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- DATE: FEB.23, 1991 13:51 REPORT: 5
- TO: SPL
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- BUREAU: WASHINGTON
- BY: CHRISTOPHER OGDEN
- IN:
- SLUG: WAR NARRATIVE
-
- Lots of talk at the United Nations Saturday morning and
- early afternoon, the significance of which is still
- unclear. You have the Vorontsov language about Iraq
- responding in practice to the U.S. proposal.
-
- Whatever that means precisely, it cut no ice with the
- president who was moving largely, if not exclusively, to
- the beat of his own drummer. Bush has a first rate pro at
- the U.N. in Ambassador Tom Pickering, but he also knows
- the talk shop qualities of the place intimately himself,
- having served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. from
- 1970-73.
-
- The word from Washington was much less muddled. Bush was
- at Camp David with Baker, but at 1:15 p.m., about the
- time the Security Council was breaking up (needs check),
- the White House released a terse, three sentence written
- statement in the president's name.
-
- "We regret that Saddam Hussein took no action before the
- noon deadline to comply with the United Nations
- resolutions. We remain determined to fulfill the U.N.
- resolutions. Military action continues on schedule and
- according to plan."
-
- Twenty minutes later, the White House issued a second
- statement, this one in spokesman Fitzwater's name.
-
- (We expect the full transcript momentarily and will
- update.)
-
-