CBS Evening News - 1983-12-05
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[0:11] good evening this is the CBS Evening
[0:12] News Dan Rather reporting add to the
[0:15] violence that has become Lebanon A Car
[0:17] Bomb today in a residential section of
[0:19] Muslim West Beirut 14 people killed 84
[0:22] wounded the damage from that 300lb bomb
[0:25] was complete and so too says the United
[0:28] States was the damage in Ed on Syrian
[0:30] military positions during a big US air
[0:33] strike yesterday but the American cost
[0:35] was high One Pilot killed one captured
[0:39] two planes destroyed and eight US
[0:41] Marines killed in later Shelly our
[0:44] coverage begins with Martha tyser in
[0:47] Beirut today's car bomb explosion
[0:49] destroyed an apartment building it
[0:51] killed civilians it had no apparent
[0:54] political Target and remains unexplained
[0:57] but it serves as a metaphor for all the
[0:59] hideous ected incidents that occur in
[1:01] Beirut isolated acts that alone are
[1:04] unrelated together add insidiously to
[1:06] the kind of tension that breeds each new
[1:09] eruption of political violence here the
[1:12] explosion came as the US peacekeeping
[1:14] Force recovered from intense shelling at
[1:16] Beirut International Airport overnight
[1:19] widely believed to have been a
[1:20] retaliation carried out by factions in
[1:23] support of Syria after the United States
[1:25] bombed Syrian held territory in eastern
[1:28] Lebanon the initial fire was uh we
[1:32] thought uh one of our usual firefights
[1:35] uh just outside our lines and we were
[1:38] taking spillover it became obvious
[1:39] within the first 10 or 15 minutes that
[1:42] it was not spillover they were shooting
[1:44] at us the Marines took fire from as
[1:46] close as 300 ft the eight men who died
[1:49] and the two who wer