CBS Evening News - 1985-12-13

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[0:02] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:04] News. Dan Rather reporting. The first

[0:06] look at and listen to the badly damaged

[0:09] black boxes recovered from the chartered

[0:11] Arrow Air DC-8 wreckage outside Gander

[0:14] Airport tonight revealed nothing. No

[0:16] firm clue to the cause of the crash that

[0:19] killed all the US soldiers and crew

[0:21] aboard the jet. US officials said today

[0:23] there were 248, not 250, US soldiers on

[0:26] board returning from a tour of duty in

[0:28] the Sinai peacekeeping force. With the

[0:30] crew, the total dead now stands at 256.

[0:34] Search teams today recovered more bodies

[0:37] amid the wreckage and Christmas present

[0:39] packages. Bill Whitaker is there.

[0:42] Investigators at the crash site today

[0:44] said it was the DC-8's tail that first

[0:46] struck a grove of trees and then this

[0:48] ridge before the plane exploded into a

[0:50] fireball a half a mile from the airport.

[0:53] Debris strewn for 3/4 of a mile still

[0:55] litters the area, though fire and its

[0:57] intense heat destroyed much of the

[0:59] evidence. It was also revealed today

[1:01] that not all of the victims have been

[1:03] recovered. All the bodies have have not

[1:06] been removed yet. There's still some

[1:08] bodies still at the site. By late today,

[1:10] more than 200 bodies have been laid out

[1:12] at a makeshift morgue in an airport

[1:14] hangar. Autopsies of the eight crew

[1:16] members will try to determine whether

[1:17] the flight crew had been drinking,

[1:19] suffered from stress, or heart failure.

[1:21] Officials who examined the voice and

[1:23] data recorders came up with few clues

[1:25] due to extensive damage to the so-called

[1:27] black boxes. Unfortunately, when we open

[1:31] it, we found that the

[1:33] the tape it had broken in two places.

[1:37] Uh this most probably occurred at

[1:39] impact. We've only done an initial

[1:41] examination and that initial examination

[1:44] has not provided any information

[1:47] that leads to any conclusions about the

[1:49] cause of the crash. Did you comment on

[1:51] what are the conditions of the state of

[1:52] the recorder?

[1:54] That sort of frustration seems to be

[1:56] growing as Canadian investigators fail

[1:58] to find a cause. So far they say it was

[2:01] a normal takeoff.

[2:03] Although this military aircraft brought

[2:05] transport caskets to Gander today,

[2:07] authorities say none of the bodies will

[2:09] be flown back to the United States until

[2:11] all of the autopsies are completed,

[2:13] perhaps sometime this weekend.

[2:15] The crash of the chartered DC-8 has left

[2:18] a trail of reminders, but so far no

[2:20] answers to explain why so many died

[2:23] here.

[2:24] Bill Redeker, CBS News, Gander,

[2:26] Newfoundland.

[2:27] Sources at the Pentagon and within the

[2:29] FAA have told CBS News that US

[2:31] investigators in Newfoundland are

[2:33] seriously looking into the possibility

[2:35] that the Arrow Air DC-8, loaded with

[2:37] soldiers, baggage, and fuel, may have

[2:39] been overweight, unable to fly. These

[2:42] officials also say that even though the

[2:44] pilot never asked for deicing, ice may

[2:47] have formed on the jet's wings prior to

[2:49] takeoff, possibly contributing to the

[2:51] crash. Arthur Wolk, an aviation

[2:53] specialist and licensed transport pilot,

[2:56] says the combination of a heavy plane

[2:58] and ice can be disastrous.

[3:00] Icing destroys the ability of the

[3:02] aircraft's wings to generate lift. You

[3:05] can have just a very thin surface film

[3:07] of ice on an aircraft wing and make that

[3:09] aircraft totally incapable of flight at

[3:12] any weight.

[3:13] While the cause of the crash remains

[3:14] under investigation, former Arrow Air

[3:16] employees are coming forward accusing

[3:18] the airline of poor maintenance

[3:20] procedures. James Court is a former

[3:22] Arrow Air pilot who resigned last year.

[3:25] I was most unhappy about the maintenance

[3:27] situation.

[3:31] >> To say it would be unsafe would uh

[3:34] paint it too easily.

[3:36] Mechanic Randy Sturm worked last summer

[3:38] on the DC-8 that crashed yesterday. He

[3:41] says most of the mechanics who worked on

[3:42] the plane didn't know what they were

[3:43] doing and that the jet was in bad shape.

[3:46] Pretty poor. It wasn't a well-maintained

[3:49] aircraft.

[3:50] I lacking in maintenance, uh it was

[3:53] carrying a number of deferred items

[3:55] um

[3:57] on the aircraft.

[3:58] >> June, the FAA fined Arrow Air $34,000

[4:01] for numerous safety violations. A

[4:03] spokesman for Arrow Air today denied the

[4:05] airline has a bad maintenance history

[4:07] and called James Court a former employee

[4:10] with an axe to grind. The spokesman also

[4:12] said, "We have never flown an airplane

[4:14] that is not completely safe to fly."

[4:18] Tom Ritson Taylor says he will never fly

[4:20] Arrow Air again. He was in an Arrow DC-8

[4:23] last summer on a flight from Frankfurt,

[4:25] Germany to Detroit. Ritson Taylor says

[4:27] about 10 minutes into the flight all

[4:29] four engines on the DC-8 went out. Sound

[4:32] stopped. Everything went dead.

[4:34] Uh you could hear a pin drop inside the

[4:36] cockpit or inside the fuselage.

[4:39] Um everybody just more or less froze.

[4:42] The engines were restarted in flight.

[4:44] Arrow Air officials say the DC-8 that

[4:46] crashed yesterday was scheduled for a

[4:48] major maintenance overhaul including the

[4:50] replacement of one engine. Investigators

[4:52] from the FAA and the NTSB are searching

[4:55] the company's maintenance records for

[4:57] possible problems. Peter Van Sant, CBS

[4:59] News, Atlanta.

[5:00] Defense Department correspondent David

[5:02] Martin reports tonight the Pentagon now

[5:04] has approved the Army's new request not

[5:07] to use Arrow Air or any other contract

[5:09] charter company to fly home the rest of

[5:12] the 101st Airborne next week from

[5:14] peacekeeping duties in the Sinai.

[5:16] Instead, US military-owned and operated

[5:18] transports will be sent this time. The

[5:20] reason the Army gives is not safety. The

[5:22] Army says it's because not to add to the

[5:24] emotional stress of the soldiers or

[5:26] their families.

[5:27] President and Nancy Reagan will join the

[5:29] relatives of the air crash victims and

[5:31] soldiers who served previously with the

[5:33] peacekeeping force in the Sinai for

[5:35] memorial services at Fort Campbell,

[5:36] Kentucky. Those services to be held next

[5:39] Monday morning. For the families already

[5:41] gathered at Fort Campbell, the shock

[5:43] gave way to grief today. Instead of the

[5:45] expected familiar voice of a returning

[5:47] loved one at the door, it was the

[5:49] dreaded knock at the door.

[5:51] Bruce Hall reports.

[5:54] The weather and the mood were the same

[5:56] at Fort Campbell today, dark, dreary,

[5:59] and bleak. It was a somber group of 125

[6:02] handpicked soldiers who left for Dover

[6:04] Air Force Base to serve as an honor

[6:06] guard for their fallen buddies.

[6:08] Despite their mood, some units of the

[6:10] 101st returned to the training field

[6:12] today.

[6:13] We also

[6:15] feel the pain of what's going on.

[6:18] You're not going to be able to stop when

[6:20] you're a soldier. You must continue.

[6:22] Around the country, this scene was

[6:24] repeated dozens of times. In Brentwood,

[6:27] Pennsylvania, Army officials delivered

[6:29] the bad news to Jenna Shrimpf.

[6:32] No, no, no. It can't be. Not Peter.

[6:37] And then, hours later, we learned that

[6:40] yes, yes, yes, it was Peter.

[6:42] The young man was doing what he wanted

[6:44] to do. He made

[6:45] >> the decision to do what that, okay?

[6:47] And

[6:48] I think he was very proud to do it. And

[6:50] I was very proud of him, too.

[6:52] He was a super young man, okay?

[6:55] And my life's better for the fact that

[6:58] he was here.

[6:59] And he hurt me cuz he'll be my my third

[7:01] son I had lost.

[7:03] And for the 70 or so families in and

[7:06] around Fort Campbell, there is comfort

[7:08] in the strong local support system, a

[7:10] sense of love and community.

[7:13] People are going to shock for a while,

[7:14] and then they start pulling together.

[7:16] Contributions are pouring into newly set

[7:18] up relief funds, along with offers of

[7:21] food, clothes, babysitting, comfort. I

[7:24] would say the biggest need right now is

[7:26] for a shoulder to cry on,

[7:29] for

[7:30] someone to be there.

[7:32] Soldiers and civilians alike here feel a

[7:34] deep personal sense of loss. When a

[7:37] tragedy like this occurs,

[7:39] it is not only felt by the family

[7:40] members, but by each and every one,

[7:42] because

[7:44] you know, that could have been anybody.

[7:45] That could happen to anyone. There was

[7:47] at least one happy twist today. Andrea

[7:49] Nunez had been notified in El Paso,

[7:51] Texas, that her brother Luis Grolan was

[7:54] aboard the plane. Today, officials

[7:56] called back, said he missed the flight

[7:58] and was still alive. So, we celebrate

[8:00] Christmas, you know, we already got our

[8:02] Christmas present. So, the Christmas

[8:04] tree that was taken down yesterday went

[8:06] back up today.

[8:08] Bruce Hall, CBS News, Fort Campbell,

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[9:03] the night.

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[9:07] these is important to us.

[9:09] It touches everything we do, from

[9:10] helping one another to the food we put

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[9:29] The Labor Department today reported that

[9:30] wholesale prices jumped a sharp 8/10 of

[9:33] 1% in November, but analysts said the

[9:35] increase was due almost entirely to a

[9:38] temporary surge in beef and fuel prices.

[9:41] After cracking some of the toughest

[9:42] kernels holding up a new farm bill

[9:45] setting wheat and grain subsidies, rice

[9:47] and cotton supports, congressional

[9:49] negotiators are still stalled tonight on

[9:51] one of the biggest farm bill

[9:53] controversies of all, dairy subsidies.

[9:56] What the federal government pays in

[9:57] subsidies, whether directly or

[9:59] indirectly, not only affects the

[10:01] farmers, but the prices we all pay, both

[10:04] in tax dollars and consumer dollars at

[10:06] the supermarket. Ray Brady looks tonight

[10:08] at one subsidy that could lead to a case

[10:11] of sugar shock.

[10:13] This is the time of year when Americans

[10:15] load up on candy. They're consuming 19

[10:18] lb a year of these confections, more

[10:21] than they have in the last decade. But

[10:23] for candy makers, this appetite for

[10:25] sweets has a bittersweet taste. They're

[10:28] paying as much as five times more for

[10:30] sugar than other countries because of a

[10:33] federal government program that aids

[10:35] sugar growers here, a program that many

[10:37] say should be cut back. It's the most

[10:40] outrageous program, the biggest

[10:42] boondoggle ever conceived by man.

[10:45] Under this program, the US guarantees

[10:48] the price growers will get for their

[10:49] sugar crop. And to make sure the price

[10:51] stays up, it is keeping millions of tons

[10:54] of foreign sugar out of this country.

[10:57] The result, candy makers pay about 22

[10:59] cents a pound for sugar that sells on

[11:01] world markets for around 4 cents a

[11:04] pound. All this, say critics, to protect

[11:07] a few thousand sugar farmers.

[11:09] We can compete worldwide as long as our

[11:12] government provides a level playing

[11:14] field for us.

[11:15] A fair way to compete. The average sugar

[11:18] farmer gets a subsidy of $250,000

[11:21] per farm. That's an awful lot of money.

[11:23] I think that's a pretty sweet bargain

[11:24] that they've worked with the federal

[11:25] government.

[11:27] Since candy is largely sugar, that

[11:29] industry is especially hard hit. Candy

[11:32] imports made with cheaper sugar have

[11:34] nearly tripled in the last 5 years.

[11:37] Consumers pay an estimated $3 billion

[11:40] more in food bills because of

[11:42] high-priced sugar. And critics say sugar

[11:45] growers may be pricing themselves out of

[11:47] jobs. For example, the real thing used

[11:50] to contain real sugar. No more.

[11:53] Since this government program started in

[11:55] 1981, seven sugar refineries have closed

[11:59] along of 3,000 jobs. Sugar growers

[12:02] dismiss many of these complaints.

[12:05] I don't see that it's it's as alarming

[12:08] as they say it is. That they've made it

[12:09] alarming because it's convenient to

[12:12] because the sugar bill is up for up for

[12:14] debate.

[12:16] That debate today took a turn in favor

[12:19] of US growers when a House-Senate

[12:21] conference committee recommended that

[12:23] sugar imports be cut even more.

[12:27] Ray Brady, CBS News, New York.

[12:30] A report out today by a National Academy

[12:32] of Sciences panel finds that in spite of

[12:34] big employment gains in the 1970s, women

[12:37] still earn just about 60% of the

[12:40] salaries of men. Part of it is skill or

[12:43] experience differences, says the

[12:45] Academy, but up to 40% of the problem is

[12:48] sex segregation in jobs.

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[14:01] Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in

[14:03] Paris today said they have filed legal

[14:05] action to win recognition of their claim

[14:08] that they discovered the deadly AIDS

[14:10] virus earlier than US colleagues. At

[14:12] issue is who gets the royalties from

[14:14] diagnostic kits or potential cures or

[14:17] vaccines.

[14:19] But what about the 15,000 people in this

[14:21] country who already suffer from AIDS?

[14:23] The thousands more who will contract the

[14:24] disease? Concluding her two reports,

[14:26] Susan Spencer tonight explains why for

[14:28] doctors and patients alike, desperation

[14:31] mingles with hope.

[14:33] Almost a year after Bill learned he had

[14:36] AIDS, just walking into his doctor's

[14:38] office is an excruciating, almost

[14:40] impossible task. I've been getting

[14:43] progressively worse.

[14:45] What once would have been unusual about

[14:46] Bill's case is becoming more common in

[14:48] AIDS patients. His symptoms indicate

[14:51] that the virus is attacking not only his

[14:53] immune cells, but his nervous system and

[14:55] his brain as well. It's very hard for me

[14:58] to to remember

[15:00] places and times, dates.

[15:02] Doctors concede that early in this

[15:04] disease they may have written off many

[15:06] of the neurological symptoms of AIDS,

[15:08] thinking patients simply were depressed.

[15:10] Today, they've seen enough to start

[15:12] testing for them. Okay, I want you to

[15:14] tell me exactly where I'm touching you.

[15:15] The problems range from simple

[15:17] forgetfulness and difficulty walking to

[15:19] total paralysis and insanity. And these

[15:22] symptoms are sometimes the first doctors

[15:25] see. We've seen about 28 such patients

[15:28] in in all in which the dementia was the

[15:31] a major early manifestation of their

[15:34] overall disease.

[15:35] Frank Donahue's first symptoms of AIDS

[15:37] were neurological. In his case, partial

[15:40] paralysis. They thought that it would

[15:42] there was a brain tumor in there.

[15:44] And so I went to get the surgery. And he

[15:47] told me at the surgery that the bottom

[15:49] line was AIDS. Along with neurological

[15:52] problems, doctors have started to notice

[15:54] AIDS patients developing new cancers,

[15:57] rare forms of Hodgkin's disease, and

[15:59] various lymphomas.

[16:01] It's thought these new mental and

[16:03] physical problems may simply be what

[16:05] happens when the AIDS virus has had a

[16:07] longer time to do its work.

[16:09] What will happen to the people who are

[16:11] carrying this virus for 5 or 10 or 15

[16:13] years, especially if we can't develop a

[16:16] drug that it blocks the virus? Will the

[16:18] will the mental problems increase?

[16:21] One drug that does seem to block the

[16:22] virus and work in the brain is

[16:24] azidothymidine, nicknamed compound S. In

[16:28] very preliminary tests, compound S

[16:30] patients have shown some improvement. In

[16:33] the search for the ultimate weapon, an

[16:35] AIDS vaccine, interest centers on

[16:37] discovering why some people can be

[16:39] infected with the virus yet not get

[16:41] AIDS.

[16:42] These African green monkeys may offer a

[16:44] clue. A virus similar to the human AIDS

[16:47] virus seems not to affect them. A

[16:50] vaccine might mimic the mechanism that

[16:52] keeps them healthy. But would the public

[16:54] ever accept a vaccine against this

[16:57] particular dread disease? I think the

[16:59] problem

[17:00] is is taking any virus that's anything

[17:03] like the AIDS virus and giving it to

[17:05] normal humans.

[17:06] Uh

[17:07] I would not

[17:09] volunteer for that at this point.

[17:11] Reactions like that speak to the

[17:12] devastation of AIDS, a disease that

[17:14] seems to be picking up new identities as

[17:16] it evolves, leaving both scientist and

[17:19] patient desperate for answers. As long

[17:22] as you're still alive, you still have

[17:24] hope for something.

[17:27] And I'm not giving up. For others, it's

[17:29] hard not to. If you got to do something

[17:32] about all this AIDS stuff.

[17:35] Bill, we're trying and we're trying.

[17:37] Susan Spencer, CBS News, Boston.

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[18:53] The State Department made public today,

[18:55] vaguely, a plan for a US peace offer in

[18:58] Afghanistan. The plan was secretly

[19:00] presented by President Reagan to Soviet

[19:01] leader Gorbachev at the Geneva summit.

[19:03] It wasn't revealed publicly until today.

[19:06] It's said to involve a US offer to

[19:07] guarantee provisions of a ceasefire and

[19:10] the withdrawal of Soviet troops from

[19:11] Afghanistan. In South Africa, blacks

[19:14] have organized a Christmas boycott of

[19:15] white-owned stores and it's apparently

[19:17] having considerable effect. They've set

[19:19] up roadblocks and searches to prevent

[19:21] blacks from shopping at white stores.

[19:23] Violators of this black boycott have

[19:26] their shopping taken from them by the

[19:27] militants. The result, many blacks have

[19:29] abandoned shopping this Christmas season

[19:32] and there's a dispute over the boycott's

[19:33] methods. Many black leaders say they

[19:35] support the boycott but not the

[19:37] intimidation of what goes with it. Three

[19:39] men were found shot to death in

[19:40] Johannesburg, a suburb of Johannesburg

[19:42] today. Details unclear. And a boycott

[19:45] leader who advocated non-violence

[19:47] reportedly was arrested in Soweto.

[19:49] There was a major vote today by the

[19:50] California Board of Education, a vote

[19:52] with nationwide implications. At issue,

[19:55] seventh and eighth grade textbooks which

[19:57] will be in classrooms next fall. Barry

[19:59] Peterson has that story.

[20:01] Junior high students trying to

[20:03] understand the origins of man.

[20:05] Cuz I don't know how either God did it

[20:07] or

[20:09] is there a God?

[20:10] Did the monkeys do it? Sixty years ago,

[20:13] the debate raged at the famous Scopes

[20:15] Monkey Trial, evolution versus the

[20:17] Bible's account of creation. And many

[20:20] educators say even now, the Bible has

[20:22] too much influence on science textbooks.

[20:25] Some don't even mention the word

[20:26] evolution.

[20:28] Textbook publishers try to avoid

[20:29] controversy, but what about the

[20:31] children? These books and the others

[20:34] like them are books from the 18th

[20:37] century. Example, about dinosaurs,

[20:40] quote, "Some scientists believe that

[20:42] strange animals with dry, scaly skins

[20:45] roam the earth." If this is just a

[20:47] belief, what the hell are those bones

[20:49] out there in the museum?

[20:50] >> I brought something that is part of a

[20:52] dinosaur that roamed the earth millions

[20:54] of years ago. So, this is what some

[20:55] scientists believe.

[20:58] California ordered the books rewritten,

[21:00] more science, less creationism. To

[21:03] suggest that students research

[21:04] creationism in a science class is the

[21:07] same, I think, as suggesting in a class

[21:09] on human reproduction

[21:11] that a report be made on the alternate

[21:13] explanation involving the stork.

[21:15] They are forcing the student to conclude

[21:17] that there is no God. They're teaching

[21:19] us that human evolution is true and the

[21:20] only way in which we should interpret

[21:22] how man got here. All in favor? Aye.

[21:25] Opposed? No. The revised textbooks were

[21:28] accepted.

[21:29] >> If we're going to be a scientifically

[21:30] literate nation and compete in this

[21:32] world, we're going to have to present

[21:34] science courses that give students a

[21:37] crack at that information. Books

[21:38] rewritten for California will be sold

[21:40] extensively in other states. So, what

[21:43] happened here means that across the

[21:44] country, evolution will be more clearly

[21:47] taught in science class.

[21:49] Barry Peterson, CBS News, Sacramento,

[21:51] California.

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[22:17] And with its more powerful engine,

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[23:08] You know what your problem is, Eric?

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[23:36] On Sunday, a few thousand people were

[23:37] here a sound in New York that this city

[23:40] hasn't heard in 2 years. That may not

[23:42] sound like a long time, but so Bob Simon

[23:44] explains why it's a noteworthy occasion.

[23:49] There is an incomparable thrill about a

[23:51] comeback. Suspense. Has the star faded?

[23:54] Does the old man still have what it

[23:56] takes? Summoned in triumph, some in

[23:58] disaster. Some people make a career of

[24:01] coming back.

[24:03] Vladimir Horowitz has retired half a

[24:05] dozen times. He is 82 years old. He is

[24:08] coming back to Carnegie Hall on Sunday.

[24:12] He was rehearsing this afternoon. If

[24:14] you've ever been the slightest bit

[24:15] intimidated by a great artist, meet

[24:17] Vladimir Horowitz. You think if I play

[24:20] in Carnegie Hall, there will be people?

[24:23] Do you think there would be Of course

[24:24] there would be people.

[24:25] People lined up to 94th Street trying to

[24:27] buy tickets.

[24:27] >> lied before. Absolutely.

[24:30] They didn't forget me? There were enough

[24:32] people who didn't forget to give

[24:33] Sunday's concert the usual Horowitz

[24:35] epithet, sold out. People stood online

[24:38] 24 hours. This guy is God. Vladimir

[24:42] Horowitz is the best pianist in the

[24:43] world. He is able, absolutely, to bring

[24:47] along his audience and create a power of

[24:50] magnetism and electricity that

[24:53] captivates them.

[24:59] Horowitz ended his most recent

[25:00] retirement in Paris last month, then on

[25:03] to La Scala in Milan. Both warm-ups for

[25:05] Sunday in Carnegie, where Horowitz

[25:07] became an American celebrity overnight

[25:10] in 1928.

[25:21] Your first concert at Carnegie Hall was

[25:23] 57 years ago.

[25:24] >> Yeah.

[25:26] What do you remember about it?

[25:27] >> Nothing.

[25:30] Nothing.

[25:32] What has kept him alive and vital? Well,

[25:34] there's his critic, his taskmaster, and

[25:36] his wife, Wanda, the daughter of

[25:39] Toscanini. There's the fact that he

[25:41] never does the same thing twice. He

[25:43] discovers new sounds in old pieces,

[25:45] colors as varied as the shape of

[25:47] snowflakes.

[25:55] This kind of

[25:57] absolutely controlled

[25:59] clang of sound that can shake

[26:03] the foundations

[26:04] of the building and yet whisper as

[26:07] softly

[26:08] as a girl's tear.

[26:13] And yet there's a mischievous impish

[26:15] quality. How old was he when he started?

[26:17] 30 years old. The boy who never grew up.

[26:21] Is he about to lift his fingers from a

[26:22] keyboard or from a cookie jar?

[26:28] The words used to describe him, fiery,

[26:30] impetuous, audacious, are words which

[26:33] describe youth.

[26:35] On Sunday, the question will be asked

[26:37] once again, what's going to happen when

[26:40] Vladimir Horowitz starts to grow old?

[26:48] Bob Simon, CBS News, New York. We have a

[26:50] very beautiful thing now.

[26:55] And that's the CBS Evening News for this

[26:56] Friday. Dan Rather reporting from New

[26:58] York. Thank you for joining us. See you

[26:59] here again Monday.

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[28:46] Tomorrow, the Bears will try to dent the

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[28:50] with the NFL today at noon Eastern

[28:53] tomorrow on CBS Sports.

[28:56] This is CBS.

[29:00] In our news tonight, an honor guard

[29:02] leaves Fort Campbell to meet the bodies

[29:04] of the soldiers who died on their trip

[29:05] home from the Sinai. A live satellite 5

[29:08] report from Dover Air Force Base where

[29:10] preparations are underway to receive

[29:12] those bodies. And a live satellite 5

[29:14] report from Hopkinsville where a

[29:16] memorial service for those soldiers has

[29:18] just ended. This and a lot more coming

[29:20] up next on Eyewitness News. Join us.

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