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...Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post in New York City. Some viewers and critics got a charge out of watching Rather pick through Kuwaiti ammunition stocks, but as Arledge contends, "We thought Peter was better utilized here, where he could pull the story together...
...pictures were among the most stunning to come out of the gulf war: mile after mile of burned, smashed, shattered vehicles of every description -- tanks, armored cars, trucks, autos, even stolen Kuwaiti fire trucks -- littering the highway from Kuwait City to Basra. To some Americans, the pictures were also sickening. Weren't the Iraqis in those vehicles pulling out ^ of Kuwait, exactly as the U.S. wanted them to? Did the American planes that wreaked this carnage really have to keep up the bloody assaults on an already beaten...
True enough, the tanks and armored cars got tangled up with civilian vehicles. These mostly were driven by Iraqi soldiers bugging out from Kuwait City, carrying along staggering loads of loot and Kuwaiti civilians apparently to be used as hostages; the troopers unwittingly drove smack into a bigger battle than the one they were fleeing. After the war, correspondents did find some cars and trucks with burned bodies, but also many vehicles that had been abandoned. Their occupants had fled on foot, and the American planes often did not fire at them. That some Kuwaiti civilians who had been kidnapped...
...fiery oil wells, which after a month of continuous burning will create enough smoke and soot to cover an area half the size of the U.S., according to some projections. The by-products of combustion include carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and, because of the high sulfur content of Kuwaiti crude, a good deal of sulfur dioxide -- a prime component in acid rain...
...scientists predicted, could reach the upper atmosphere, snuffing out an entire growing season and threatening millions with starvation. During the war, the Pentagon issued what turned out to be exaggerated assessments of oil spills into the gulf, putting Saddam Hussein's acts of ecoterrorism in the worst possible light. Kuwaiti officials appear to be still overstating the amount of oil going up in smoke: the Kuwaitis say they are losing 6 million bbl. per day (roughly equal to 10% of daily global oil use), a figure U.S. experts say is not credible...