NIGHTLINE. 13/01/1993

US president Bush has told his military to launch a strike against Iraq because of threatening moves by Saddam Hussein. A White House spokesman conformed the attack, but military experts says it’s unlikely to happen tonight because of thick cloud cover over Iraq.

“Camillagate” An Australian magazine has published the transcript of a sexually-explicit phone call said to be between HRH Prince Charles and the woman many suspect is his secret lover, Camilla Parker Bowles.

The former East Grrman leader Erich Honecker won’t face trial for the killing of East Grrmans trying to cross the Berlin Wall. A court has ruled he is too ill to face trial.

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