CBS Evening News - 1988-02-18
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[0:00] Everybody. Thanks for being here today.
[0:01] See you tomorrow at 5:00. Here's CBS.
[0:06] >> This is the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather
[0:09] reporting. Good evening. A caller
[0:11] claiming to represent something called
[0:13] the Islamic Revolutionary Brigades today
[0:15] claimed responsibility for kidnapping a
[0:17] US Marine officer in southern Lebanon. A
[0:20] Lebanese militia leader said it appears
[0:22] to be the same pro-Iranian group that's
[0:24] holding eight other American hostages in
[0:26] Beirut. In Washington, President Reagan
[0:29] spoke publicly about wanting to quote
[0:31] rescue Lieutenant Colonel William
[0:32] Higgins, but aides quickly backed off of
[0:34] that issuing what they called a
[0:36] qualification saying that the president
[0:38] was not talking about any military
[0:39] rescue.
[0:41] From the White House, Terrance Smith
[0:42] begins our report.
[0:45] >> President Reagan stunned reporters and
[0:47] congressmen at a morning meeting on the
[0:48] new budget when he seemed to suggest
[0:50] that the United States was considering
[0:52] direct action to get Colonel Higgins
[0:55] back.
[0:55] >> We're doing everything we can. We're
[0:57] trying to find out as much as we can and
[1:00] and we'll try to get him located and
[1:02] certainly we want to
[1:03] we want to rescue him.
[1:05] >> But administration spokesman hastened to
[1:06] explain that despite the president's
[1:08] remark, no special forces operation is
[1:11] being considered.
[1:12] >> I think the president was making a
[1:13] reference there to
[1:15] all of our efforts to stay in touch with
[1:17] all the parties in the region
[1:19] with the United Nations to explore every
[1:21] possibility
[1:23] to see if Colonel Higgins can't be
[1:25] safely returned.
[1:27] >> S