CBS Evening News - 1999-11-29
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[0:00] The Monica Lewinsky interview, round two
[0:03] on Entertainment Tonight.
[0:06] >> A CBS News exclusive, long missing
[0:08] victims of Mexican drug thugs are found
[0:11] buried south of the Texas border. US
[0:14] agents began a massive recovery
[0:16] operation.
[0:17] He survived a harrowing escape from Cuba
[0:20] to the US. Now, he's at the center of an
[0:23] international tug-of-war. And the battle
[0:26] in Seattle, why are so many people upset
[0:29] over an international trade meeting?
[0:34] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:38] With Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:41] headquarters in New York.
[0:43] >> Good evening. A CBS News exclusive
[0:46] tonight, the discovery of secret killing
[0:48] fields used by Mexico's narco thugs to
[0:51] bury dozens of their murder victims
[0:54] inside Mexico, just across the US
[0:57] border. Some of the dead are US
[0:58] citizens. Some just happened to be in
[1:01] the wrong place at the wrong time. CBS's
[1:04] Jim Stewart has been working this story
[1:06] hard to come up with the facts. Jim,
[1:07] what are they?
[1:08] >> Dan, an FBI task force has moved into El
[1:11] Paso, Texas tonight to begin recovering
[1:13] an estimated 100 bodies at two grave
[1:15] sites just inside the Mexican border.
[1:18] The murder victims, including perhaps as
[1:19] many as half a dozen Americans, are part
[1:21] of what is known in the region as the
[1:23] disappeared. People who simply vanished
[1:25] in recent years at the hands of Mexican
[1:27] security police or the drug cartels who
[1:29] control the region. And FBI officials
[1:31] believe many more people are still
[1:33] unaccounted for.
[1:35] Working with the Mexican army and
[1:37] federal police, the FBI is expected to
[1:39] converge on two remote