CBS Evening News - 1994-10-15
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[0:03] President Aristid pledges reconciliation
[0:06] in a triumphal return to Haiti. And
[0:09] Israel mourns the young kidnapped
[0:11] soldier who died in a failed rescue
[0:13] mission.
[0:15] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:22] and this is Bob Schaefer reporting. Good
[0:24] evening. John Bertrron Deaststeed, who
[0:26] barely escaped with his life when he
[0:28] fled Haiti on a dark night three years
[0:30] ago, returned under a bright sun to
[0:33] Haitian soil today and resume the
[0:35] presidency that was taken from him in a
[0:38] military coup. We're going to start
[0:39] there tonight with CBS News
[0:41] correspondent Bob Simon in Porter
[0:43] Prince. President Arist waved farewell
[0:46] to the Americans he once railed against
[0:49] and hopped aboard Warren Christopher's
[0:51] plane destination Porto Prince. Aristid
[0:54] said he went to bed at 4:30 this
[0:56] morning, but was woken up at 5 by a call
[0:59] from an important adviser.
[1:01] >> I got a call from my mother.
[1:03] >> Uhhuh.
[1:04] >> She wanted to tell me
[1:08] to be sweet,
[1:11] very cool,
[1:14] celebrating reconciliation.
[1:15] >> And then his American escorts pointed
[1:17] out that the land down there was Haiti.
[1:21] There. There is Haiti.
[1:23] Meditate. Go home.
[1:28] >> Down there. In Haiti, people have been
[1:30] dancing in the streets since dawn. A
[1:32] parachute brought by the Americans
[1:34] became a tent for one of the ballrooms.
[1:36] People put their furniture outside their
[1:38] homes, set tables, a Haitian way of
[1:42] saying welcome. Waves of joy splashed up
[1:45] outside the palace. Some of his biggest
[1:47] supporters were just outside the gates.
[1:50] Roosters were getting a lot of attention
[1:52] today. Roosters are symbols of our
[1:54] esteem. There was cons