CBS Evening News open - 1992-08-17

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[0:02] The Republican National Convention is

[0:04] underway in Houston with the President

[0:06] Bush facing questions about his stand on

[0:08] abortion and a possible tax cut. Also,

[0:11] eye on America. It was morning in

[0:13] America in this town. What time is it

[0:16] now? And the war in the Balkans.

[0:19] Tonight, exclusive new pictures from

[0:21] what some call a Serbian death camp.

[0:26] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:33] Live from the Astrodome in Houston,

[0:35] Texas, and the Republican National

[0:37] Convention, Dan Rather reporting. Good

[0:39] evening. The Republican delegates here

[0:41] are pretty quiet right now, but later

[0:43] tonight they'll be on their feet for

[0:45] Ronald Reagan. The former president will

[0:47] address this convention on the issue of

[0:49] foreign policy. We're also told he plans

[0:51] to bring along his sense of humor. And

[0:53] if there's any doubt that foreign policy

[0:56] is an issue now, this was the scene

[0:58] today in a foreign land halfway around

[1:01] the world where victims of a civil war

[1:04] are begging for Western help. More

[1:06] Serbian mortar attacks on Bosnian

[1:08] refugees in Sievo today killed at least

[1:12] 10 people. CBS News correspondent Martha

[1:15] Tyster and her brave crew went to

[1:17] northern Bosnia to visit what the Serbs

[1:19] call quote detention camps. what others

[1:22] call death camps.

[1:25] >> The first sight, the first hope this

[1:27] living skeleton had of help. The first

[1:30] time any government official from the

[1:32] West has seen for himself conditions in

[1:35] any of the Serbun prison camps. The

[1:38] guards insist these men are not

[1:40] starving. They're sick.

[1:42] >> I don't know.

[1:43] >> How did they get that?

[1:45] >> Don't picture me. This is all.

[1:47] >> It was a French cabinet minister, a

[1:49] doctor who went to investigate the

[1:50] camps. Tell him the guards ordered this

[1:53] man that no one is allowed to die here.

[1:56] >> Part of hell.

[1:58] >> Part of hell on earth.

[2:00] >> Fear was oozing from the faces. These

[2:02] people are kept in barns on cement floor

[2:05] where cows used to be

[2:06] >> in cattle sheds. More than 3,500

[2:09] prisoners. It was their eyes, the

[2:12] terrible haunted look in their faces

[2:15] that was shocking.

[2:17] Silently, men cried. The only sound was

[2:20] the screeching of the birds. The only

[2:23] interaction had to be secret, comforting

[2:25] a prisoner close to death. I'm rotting

[2:28] here, this man said. The emaciated

[2:30] appearance of the prisoners was the

[2:32] guard's biggest concern. Don't just

[2:34] photograph the skinny ones, they warned

[2:36] us, forcing the prisoners to put their

[2:38] shirts back on. But clothes, even a

[2:40] brand new blanket couldn't hide the

[2:43] fear. Have you ever been afraid that

[2:45] you'll be killed?

[2:47] >> There there have been some thoughts.

[2:50] >> In a second camp, we were told of

[2:52] executions. this military and bring

[2:54] outside and

[2:56] >> yes and I think 80 or 100 people is

[3:01] there from this camp

[3:02] >> 18 18 80 to 100 people died from this

[3:06] >> yes

[3:07] >> this was supposed to be the best of the

[3:08] camps

[3:09] >> but I know including here some have been

[3:12] shot

[3:13] >> some have been shot

[3:14] >> here too the fear is everywhere

[3:16] >> the people speak here it's very easy

[3:19] very easy

[3:20] >> easy to become a marked Man, world

[3:22] outrage has brought improvement, but

[3:25] marginal at best. Until the Red Cross

[3:27] was allowed into this camp last week,

[3:29] there was no food. The Red Cross is also

[3:32] trying to compile lists of prisoners of

[3:34] war, but any comment on camp conditions

[3:36] is forbidden. For the French delegation,

[3:39] there is only one way to end the abuses.