- Title: USA: CONGRESS DEBATES SENDING GROUND FORCES TO YUGOSLAVIA.
- Date: 13th April 1999
- Summary: BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 12, 1999) (POOL) 1. GV/PAN: U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AND HIS ADVISERS GET OFF PLANE 0.10 2. GV: CUTAWAY OF B-52'S ON TARMAC 0.17 3. GV: WIDE VIEW OF PRESIDENT CLINTON WALKING WITH AIR FORCE PERSONNEL 0.21 4. SV: AIR FORCE PERSONNEL WALKING PAST SIGN WELCOMING CLINTON TO BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE IN LOUISIANA 0.27 5. GV: CLINTON WALKING UP TO PODIUM AS "HAIL TO THE CHIEF" IS BEING PLAYED 0.35 6. CU/GV: CUTWAYS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL 0.47 7. CU: SOUNDBITE (English) U.S PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON SAYING "The stories we're hearing now are really chilling. Serb security forces herding Albanian villages together and gunning them down with automatic weapons and setting them on fire, telling villages leave or we will kill you, separating family members, loading up buses and trains, carrying some to the borders and some to be slaughtered, confiscating identity papers and property records, seeking to erase the presence of these people in their own lands forever, we must not let that happen." 1.27 8. MCU: SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN SAYING: "Any consideration for ground troops is something for the future and we do not believe it's necessary and the president said he does not intend to use ground troops." 1.37 WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES, (APRIL 12, 1999) ( POOL) 9. GV: SLV MAJOR GENERAL CHUCK WALD AT THE PENTAGON POINTING TO CHART 1.44 10. CU: CHART SHOWING DEGRADATION OF SERBIAN SUPPLIES AND SYSTEMS ETC. 1.47 (RECENT)(DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE VIDEO) 11. VIDEO OF AIR ATTACKS ON SERBIAN TARGETS 2.01 WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES, (APRIL 12, 1999) ( POOL) 12. CU: SOUNDBITE (English) MAJOR GENERAL CHUCK WALD SAYING: "There is a lot of speculation about different alternatives; The air campaign is working, general Clark feels comfortable with it. He is executing that campaign at his pace, not a Milosevic's pace. He's committed to that as I said it's working. Anything beyond that would be speculation. 2.20 13. TV: WIDE VIEW OF SENATE FLOOR 2.24 14. MCU: SOUNDBITE (English) DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BYRON DORGAN SAYING: "I do feel very strongly the introduction of U.S. ground forces on the ground in the Balkans could be a very, very significant mistake." 2.34 15. CU: SOUNDBIE (English) DEMOCRATIC SENATOR CHRIS DODD SAYING: "Let me add here that I would agree with my colleagues that have said that everything should be left on the table, including the option of using ground forces in Kosovo. I am not advocating that we take that step but I don't think we want to remove that option." 2.53 BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 12,1999) (POOL) 16. SV/PAN: PRESIDENT CLINTON SHAKING HANDS WITH MILITARY PERSONNEL 3.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LOUISIANA AND WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES
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