CBS Evening News - 1993-01-03
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[0:02] Presidents Bush and Yelten open a new
[0:04] era of relations by signing the START
[0:06] disarmament treaty. With no end in sight
[0:10] to the fighting in Bosnia, the West
[0:12] moves closer to intervention and
[0:14] hundreds of Somalis vent their anger at
[0:16] the visiting UN Secretary General.
[0:21] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:28] Good evening, I'm Connie Chuck.
[0:29] President Bush is on his way home to
[0:31] Washington, completing his last overseas
[0:33] mission as president. The historical
[0:36] highlight was the signing of the nuclear
[0:37] arms reduction treaty in Moscow today.
[0:40] Anthony Mason has the story.
[0:46] Taking perhaps his last bow on the world
[0:49] stage, President Bush joined Boris
[0:51] Yelson before a glittering Kremlin
[0:54] backdrop to sign the landmark
[0:55] disarmament treaty known simply as Start
[0:58] Two.
[0:59] >> The world looks to us to consign the
[1:01] Cold War to history to ratify our new
[1:04] relationship by reducing the weapons
[1:07] that concentrate the most destructive
[1:09] power known to man. Under the terms, the
[1:12] strategic nuclear arsenals of the two
[1:14] military superpowers will be reduced by
[1:17] 2/3. The US maintaining an advantage in
[1:20] sea-based missiles. The Russian defense
[1:23] minister has signed off on the treaty,
[1:25] but Yelson admitted the Russian
[1:26] parliament may not be ready to ratify
[1:29] it. There's a growing belief even among
[1:32] moderates in Moscow that Russia has been
[1:34] blindly following US foreign policy.
[1:37] what one newspaper here called a
[1:39] reckless subordination to American
[1:42] interests.
[1:43] >> It will be extremely important to show
[1:45] that they have their independent foreign
[1:47] policy, that Russia is no