CBS Evening News (Western) - 1999-03-24
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[0:01] The best and worst dressed stars at the
[0:03] Oscars on Entertainment Tonight.
[0:05] >> The war against Serbia is on.
[0:08] United States forces acting with our
[0:11] NATO allies
[0:13] have commenced air strikes.
[0:15] >> Air raid sirens have just begun to ring
[0:17] us for the first time today in Belgrade.
[0:21] Missiles and bombs rain on Serb targets
[0:24] as Mallic pays the price for racial and
[0:27] religious atrocities in Kosovo.
[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:36] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:39] headquarters in New York.
[0:41] >> And this is a special Western edition.
[0:43] Good evening. The United States and NATO
[0:46] launched an air war in the Balkans
[0:47] today. a high-risisk mission aimed at
[0:49] stopping Serbian aggression in Kosovo.
[0:52] Midway through the first night of
[0:54] bombing, major targets were in flames
[0:56] across Serbia and US pilots reportedly
[0:59] shot down at least two enemy aircraft.
[1:01] On the ground, Serbian forces were still
[1:04] attacking ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
[1:07] President Clinton tonight said the
[1:08] bombing is meant to deter even worse
[1:11] attacks against civilians by the Serbs.
[1:14] Our CBS coverage begins with Mark
[1:16] Phillips in the Serbian capital of
[1:18] Belgrade.
[1:20] >> Serve TV was quick to broadcast images
[1:23] of the destruction of tonight's raids.
[1:25] These pictures are from Yugoslavia's
[1:27] second largest city of Novvisad, about
[1:29] 40 miles north of Belgrave, where
[1:31] several targets were hit, including what
[1:34] appeared to be an ammunition factory.
[1:36] The Serbs were also quick to claim they
[1:38] had shot down one NATO plane and said
[1:40] they hit three incoming cruise missiles.
[1:43] Earlier today in Belgr