CBS Evening News - 1982-06-04
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[0:01] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening
[0:03] News, Dan Rather reporting.
[0:05] The nation's unemployment has gone up
[0:07] again. President Reagan is in Europe,
[0:09] and the danger of new war in the Middle
[0:11] East again has increased. Wave after
[0:13] wave of Israeli warplanes hit Beirut for
[0:16] 2 hours today. This was the first
[0:18] bombardment of alleged Palestinian
[0:20] guerrilla targets in the Lebanese
[0:21] capital in almost a year.
[0:23] In that previous devastating attack,
[0:25] some 300 people died. Today, at least 50
[0:29] were reported killed. Israel said
[0:31] today's raids were in response to the
[0:33] assassination attempt in London last
[0:35] night against its ambassador to Britain,
[0:37] [ __ ] Argov. Shot in the head, Argov is
[0:40] in critical condition. Four suspects
[0:43] were arrested. One police source said
[0:45] they all belong to a PLO splinter group
[0:48] thought to be based in Iraq.
[0:50] Hours after today's attack, guerrillas
[0:52] in southern Lebanon fired into northern
[0:54] Israel.
[0:55] Peter German in Beirut and Bob Faw in
[0:57] Tel Aviv have our reports.
[1:10] >> Teeming slum [music] districts on the
[1:11] west edge of Beirut, crowded with poor
[1:13] Palestinians, bore the brunt of the
[1:15] attacks.
[1:18] The same neighborhoods housed the
[1:19] headquarters of the PLO and some of its
[1:21] factions and sub-factions.
[1:26] Panic and chaos were common as friends,
[1:28] neighbors, relatives saw the suffering
[1:30] of the wounded in bombed-out buildings,
[1:32] and ambulances frantically squeaked
[1:34] through the narrow streets to ferry the
[1:35] wounded to hospitals.
[1:40] Gunfire in the streets added to the
[1:42] panic and confusion. Gunfire designed to
[1:44] clear the streets so the r