CBS Evening News - 1995-12-25
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[0:00] Dean Baron, Jacksonville, Oregon.
[0:04] >> Beautiful creatures.
[0:05] >> Thanks for spending part of your
[0:06] Christmas with us. We will see you back
[0:07] here for the news at 6 and at 11.
[0:09] >> From all of us at News Center 6 to all
[0:11] of you, merry Christmas everyone.
[0:29] In Bosnia, it's Thanksgiving on
[0:32] Christmas Day. Citizens of Tusla
[0:34] grateful for a measure of safety.
[0:36] American troops heartened by their first
[0:38] hot holiday meal. An ailing Pope John
[0:41] Paul II halts his Christmas greeting,
[0:45] saying he can't go on. And a farewell to
[0:48] the kuner and the comic Dean Martin.
[0:55] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:58] Rather.
[1:00] >> Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm
[1:02] Edie Magnus. Merry Christmas. In Bosnia,
[1:05] Christmas was day four of the NATO
[1:07] peacekeeping mission and the American
[1:09] commander called it a good day. Skies
[1:12] were clear and planes unloaded more
[1:13] troops and equipment. But for the
[1:16] people, survivors of a bloody civil war,
[1:18] it was more than that. Christmas meant
[1:21] tidings of comfort and joy. Bob Simon
[1:24] reports.
[1:28] >> It isn't Rome. It isn't Bethlehem. The
[1:30] Christian community is not large. But
[1:33] nowhere in the world was Christmas rung
[1:35] in with more Thanksgiving than in the
[1:37] Sacred Heart Cathedral of Sieo. It may
[1:40] be America's first Christmas in Bosnian.
[1:42] It was Sieo's first midnight mass in 4
[1:46] years. It was the night before Christmas
[1:48] and all through the city, the curfew was
[1:51] lifted for the first time since the war
[1:53] began. People reveled in their revalry,
[1:56] they deserved it, too. Christmas Day was
[1:59] moving day for many Serbs of Sievo. They
[2:02] conti