NBC Nightly News - 1990-05-25
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[0:00] Going on now at the Beaverton Home Club.
[0:03] >> The Home Club.
[0:07] >> Denise can kiss this date goodbye
[0:09] tonight on Cosby.
[0:14] >> Dozens killed as Colombia's drug barons
[0:16] terrorize voters.
[0:20] >> Gobacho. Boris Yeltson grabs for power
[0:23] on the summit's eve. and new details
[0:26] about what may have caused the USS Iowa
[0:28] explosion.
[0:30] >> NBC Nightly News with Tom Brooff.
[0:34] >> Good evening. I'm Jane Paulie sitting in
[0:36] for Tom Brokoff. In Colombia tonight,
[0:38] the drug terrorists are running wild
[0:40] with national election scheduled for
[0:42] Sunday. The country's drug bosses have
[0:44] intensified their own campaign of
[0:47] bloodshed. In just 24 hours, more than
[0:50] 40 people have been killed by bombs and
[0:52] bullets. This comes as US military
[0:55] advisers are getting more deeply
[0:56] involved in Colombia. NBC's Ed Rael is
[0:59] there.
[1:00] >> For Colombians, this is the drug war. In
[1:03] the past 24 hours, eight dead in this
[1:06] bomb blast.
[1:08] The bodies of five others, hands,
[1:10] manicled, blindfolded, and shot at close
[1:13] range. 16 others were killed during the
[1:15] night of violence in Medí.
[1:19] In Bogota, police rounding up hundreds
[1:22] of suspects, a preventive measure.
[1:24] Police are worried about new threats
[1:26] from the drug bosses to disrupt the
[1:28] elections. Police blame drug traffickers
[1:31] for the climate of terror just two days
[1:33] before Colombia's presidential
[1:34] elections. A stepped up campaign of
[1:37] violence to keep the voters from the
[1:38] polls.
[1:40] >> Colombia's tough anti-drug candidate,
[1:43] Cesar Gabidia, is the front runner. He's
[1:45] also the number one target of the drug
[1:47] cartels. We are doing this because we
[1:50] fe