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Date: 7th February 1991
Service: CEEFAX
Region: N/A
Original Broadcast Channel: BBC1
Current Page: 103
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P103 CEEFAX 103 Thu 7 Feb 21:56/14 CHENEY AND POWELL TO LEAVE FOR GULF SHORTLY US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell leave Washington for Saudi Arabia later this evening. Their mission in the Gulf is to review the overall course of the war and report back to President Bush on what steps should be taken next. Mr Cheney confirmed that their report would form the basis for any judgement on a land offensivj. The US hoped to end the war as soon possible "to minimises loss of life on all sides", he told a Senate Committee.101War headlines 130Gulf military Next News Newswatch GulfIndex Newsreel