Last night, CNN began broadcasting portions of tapes it obtained, one of which shows what appears to be the agonizing death of three dogs exposed to a chemical agent, apparently before Sept. 11.
Two years ago, the writer Amos Oz released previously censored portions of tapes that featured interviews conducted with Israeli soldiers; tormented, some confessed that the "mopping up" had included killing Egyptian prisoners of war.
A coloured tape measure instantly diagnoses acute malnutrition: the green portion of the tape indicates a child is healthy, the yellow part indicates moderate acute malnutrition, and the red part indicates that a child is severely malnourished.
But government officials said that that portion of the tape is inaudible.
Mr. Doar cited the apparently deliberate erasure of an 18½‐minute portion of a tape recording conversation between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Haldeman on June 20 , 1972— three days after the break‐in.
On the audible portion of the tape, Nixon says of the Democratic headquarters, "My God, the committee isn't worth bugging, in my opinion.
She even orders the person who finds the picture to erase an earlier portion of the tape, which shows a frightening shark attack, lest it disturb her family.
After the Pentagon made its request not to broadcast the video, CBS did not use any portion of the tape again.
On a portion of the tape played on ABC News, one pilot can be heard saying "tell him we lost both engines".
A tape cassette is designed so that it can be inserted in a recorder and used immediately; it eliminates the need to thread a portion of the tape manually before starting the recorder.
President Bush did not initially watch the television coverage of Mr. Hussein's court appearance, but at around midday he stepped out of the Oval Office into an adjoining room to watch a short portion of the tape that was being replayed by one of the news networks, Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said.
