CBS Evening News - 1999-03-23
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[0:04] Monica hits Hollywood and the Celebrity
[0:06] Mansion tour on ET.
[0:09] Crisis over Kosovo. Message to
[0:11] Mallosvich. US-led allied forces are
[0:14] prepared now to strike Serb targets at
[0:17] any moment after peace talks end in
[0:19] failure.
[0:21] NATO is now united and prepared to carry
[0:24] out its warning.
[0:29] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:33] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:36] headquarters in New York.
[0:38] >> Good evening. Diplomacy has failed.
[0:40] Next, its bombs away in the Balkans. The
[0:43] United States is revving up its air
[0:44] power tonight and Serbia is preparing
[0:47] for sustained bombing attacks. Here's
[0:49] the latest. As Serb forces pressed a
[0:52] relentless ethnic cleansing military
[0:54] offensive on the ground in Kosovo, NATO
[0:57] forces got the go-ahad to strike back
[0:59] from the air. US special envoy Richard
[1:01] Hullbrook left Belgrade, saying Serbia's
[1:04] Sloban Mallich had refused even to
[1:06] discuss a USbacked peace plan for
[1:09] Kasobo. Russia's prime minister
[1:12] cancelled in midair his trip to the US.
[1:15] President Clinton said military action
[1:17] is necessary, quote, to stand up to
[1:19] brutality. With NATO air strikes
[1:21] apparently inevitable, we began our
[1:23] extensive CBS News coverage with David
[1:25] Martin at the Pentagon. David.
[1:27] >> Dan, the military commander of NATO has
[1:29] just been given the green light to
[1:31] launch air strikes as soon as conditions
[1:34] are right. The announcement was made by
[1:36] NATO Secretary General Javier Solano,
[1:39] who said diplomacy has failed.
[1:42] and no alternative is opened but to take
[1:45] military action.
[1:46] >> The decision to give General Wesley
[1:48] Clark the authority to commence