Lots to do with War in the world, this January 8, 1993.
News from Iraq – In Baghdad, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told an emergency cabinet session Friday that, “Iraq will not heed the West’s ultimatum and will uphold its right to keep its air-defense bases where they are.” “Should these bases be attacked, Iraq will certainly respond in kind to the aggression,” the official Iraqi News Agency quoted Aziz as saying. Earlier, the government newspaper Al-Thawra said that “Iraq stresses its outright rejection of this new threat and infringement on its sovereignty.” “More than ever before, Iraq’s heroic army is ready for any potential showdown,” the newspaper said. Bush summoned military and foreign-policy advisers to the White House early Friday. Administration sources said Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Atwood were among those present at the hour-long, meeting.
Later, Powell said the United States has detected “a great deal of activity” in movement of both missiles and aircraft on Iraq’s side of the no-fly zone.
Meanwhile – The dramatic dawn assault yesterday in which U.S. Marines attacked two armed encampments on the edges of Mogadishu signaled a new, more aggressive phase of the operation to save Somalia’s famine victims. The 20-minute onslaught, in which 400 Marines unleashed a storm of firepower against the two armed camps, could be heard clearly throughout the city and was the biggest show of force to date in Somalia by American troops. Top Marine commanders said that Operation Restore Hope was now entering the third of its four envisaged phases. In the coming weeks, they said, Marines would be actively seeking out heavy weapons and the armored jeeps known as technicals throughout the areas in which they are deployed.
And closer to home – A Pacific storm abated today after drenching Southern California with a downpour that turned streams into raging torrents, sent mudslides into homes and contributed to the deaths of at least three people. Gov. Pete Wilson declared a state of emergency in San Diego County Thursday as floodwaters routed people from homes along the Tijuana River. Wilson also offered help to Baja California, where at least 14 people died as mud and water surged through Tijuana streets and shantytowns. The storm tapered off today, but another was headed toward the region and might hit coastal and mountain arcas by Saturday afternoon; the National Weather Service said.
Early today, the Mojave River overflowed in the desert town of Victorville, pushing: 3 to 4 feet of water into 18 homes and forcing evacuation of 45 people, said fire spokesman Art York. No one was injured. The water was expected to recede quickly after workers closed a spillway at Silverwood Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains, York said.
And that’s a little of what went on, this January 8, 1993 as reported by CBS Radio News.
