The January 24, 1991 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 23 day of the year. President of the United States was George Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 34 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 24, 2025, 258 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 24, 2026, in 106 days. You have lived for 12,677 days, or about 304,267 hours, or about 18,256,053 minutes, or about 1,095,363,180 seconds.
24th of January 1991 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 24, 1991
The News Faces a Deadline, but the 2 Sides Aren't Even Negotiating
Date: 25 January 1991
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
The Daily News and leaders of its nine striking unions are locked in a new dispute that has stopped all negotiations, even though the clock is ticking on a management threat to close the paper unless the strike is settled or the paper is sold. The News announced 10 days ago that it had filed formal notice as required by Federal law that it intended to close the paper in 60 days. Citing mounting losses from the strike, The News said that only a prompt settlement or a sale could prevent the paper's closing.
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CBS News Says Crew Vanished Near Front Lines
Date: 25 January 1991
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
A four-man CBS News crew led by the veteran correspondent Bob Simon has been missing in a front-line region of the Persian Gulf war since early Monday, the network said yesterday after the crew's vehicle was found in the Saudi desert near the Kuwaiti border. Four sets of footprints, apparently those of the missing men, were found in the desert trailing northward from the car into Kuwait, Saudi officials said last night. There was no word on when the vehicle had been abandoned.
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CNN Warns on Censorship
Date: 25 January 1991
The Cable News Network has added an additional caveat to its televised news reports from Baghdad, informing viewers that its reporter Peter Arnett, the only Western correspondent for a major television network still working in the Iraqi capital, is unable to select or verify the news he is allowed to broadcast. In addition to a printed message that appears on the screen that the program was "cleared by Iraqi censors," Donna Kelly, a news anchor in Atlanta, preceded yesterday's 6 P.M. report by Mr. Arnett by saying that it was being shown "within the limits of tight censorship imposed by the Iraqi Goverernment" and that the program was "carefully controlled by Iraq." A spokeswoman for CNN said that while the network had no indication that the report was anything but what it appeared to be, it was concerned with accentuating the controls under which it operated, especially as subsequent reports may be getting increasingly graphic as the war continues.
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Editors' Note
Date: 24 January 1991
A television-page article on Tuesday about cutbacks in the networks' live coverage of the Persian Gulf war quoted an executive, "speaking on the condition of anonymity," who accused CNN of "getting a lot of things wrong." In fairness, criticism should not have taken the form of an unattributed quotation. And the organization being criticized should have received an opportunity to respond. When asked for commment, Ed Turner, executive vice president of CNN, said the criticism was inaccurate and added, "It goes with the territory of being ahead on a story."
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Censors Screen Pooled Reports
Date: 25 January 1991
The American-led military command in Saudi Arabia has put into effect press restrictions under which journalists are assembled in small groups and given access to various military sources. These pool reporters obtain their information while under military escort, and their accounts are subject to scrutiny by military censors before they are distributed. Much of the information appearing today on American military operations was obtained under such circumstances.
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War: The One-Week Jitters
Date: 25 January 1991
By A. M. Rosenthal
A.
Can you imagine? This war is a week old already and we don't even know yet when it will end! What's more, it looks as if this fellow Saddam Hussein is so mean that he actually intends to hit us with those airplanes, tanks, missiles and poison weapons all our friends sold him.
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WAR IN THE GULF: The Overview; PENTAGON IS CONFIDENT ON WAR BUT SAYS IRAQIS REMAIN POTENT; SEES NO IMMINENT LAND ATTACK
Date: 24 January 1991
By Andrew Rosenthal, Special To the New York Times
Andrew Rosenthal
In a confident report on the Persian Gulf war, the nation's top military officials said today that allied forces were now intensifying a campaign to isolate and destroy Iraq's front-line force in and near Kuwait in hopes of forcing an Iraqi withdrawal. On a day in which the Administration made a concerted effort to gain control of the public debate over the war and provide evidence to back assertions that the fighting is going well, Gen. Colin L. Powell, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the effort to smash Iraqi communications and air defenses in the last week had been largely successful. He conceded that it was difficult to tell whether the bombing had harmed Iraqi forces in Kuwait. Blunt Talk and Humor Mixing blunt talk, occasional military bravado and flashes of humor at an hourlong news conference with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, General Powell said that if Iraq did not withdraw, a ground attack would not begin until President Saddam Hussein's army had been damaged badly enough to keep allied casualties to a minimum.
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WAR IN THE GULF: The Vice President; Quayle Aims At Protests, A la Agnew
Date: 24 January 1991
By Maureen Dowd, Special To the New York Times
Maureen Dowd
Until now, the White House has made a point of treating the antiwar demonstrations across Pennsylvania Avenue and across the country with benign neglect. But, in visits to three military bases today, Vice President Dan Quayle took a page from Spiro Agnew's approach during the Vietnam War and offered some tart criticism of the demonstrators and coverage of them. Vice President Quayle did not have any catchy epithets, such as his predecessor's harangues against the press as "pusilanimous pussyfooters" and Vietnam War protesters as "effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals."
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Super Bowl Is All New York! (With Some Qualifications)
Date: 24 January 1991
By John Tierney
John Tierney
A battle between a state's two largest cities sounds like such a promising civic rivalry, a throwback to the famous Subway Series between New York's baseball teams. But something seems to be missing from the Super Bowl this Sunday. Football fans are not calling it the Thruway Thriller. No headline writer has suggested the Empire Spate. The New York Post half-heartedly offered "The Supe's in a New York State of Mind," and reporters pestered Gov. Mario M. Cuomo with awkward questions about his loyalties, but otherwise the press and the fans have paid little attention to the all-New York angle.
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THE OVERVIEW; ALLIES, AIDED BY WEATHER, INTENSIFY BOMBING OF IRAQ; HUSSEIN RESTATES DEFIANCE
Date: 25 January 1991
By R. W. Apple Jr., Special To the New York Times
R. Apple
As allied bombers, taking advantage of improving weather, stepped up the pace of their attacks deep inside Iraq, the largest marine amphibious force assembled since the Korean War practiced landings in the Persian Gulf today and a 30-year-old Saudi pilot shot down a pair of enemy Mirage fighters. The American command said that allied planes had taken off more than 15,000 times in the first week of the war against Iraq, and that more than 8,000 of those flights were combat sorties. A 15th American plane was lost, an Air Force F-16 hit over Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, but its pilot managed to get the craft over water before ejecting and was picked up in the gulf by a helicopter from an American frigate, the Nicholas. Dampening Expectations The Bush Administration continued an effort to dampen public expectations of a short war. "We would prefer not to talk in terms of days or weeks but months," said Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman.
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