CBS Evening News - 1996-03-28 (low volume)
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[0:01] The siege in Big Sky Country. Watching
[0:03] and waiting from a distance in Montana.
[0:05] Both sides bristling with guns. Tonight,
[0:08] two reports, including a look at the
[0:10] FBI's strategy. A new assault on big
[0:13] tobacco. Texas charges it's a criminal
[0:16] conspiracy and a pack of lies. And the
[0:19] new way Americans are slashing
[0:21] long-distance phone bills that has the
[0:24] long-distance companies talking to
[0:26] lawyers.
[0:29] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:33] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:36] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:39] The standoff is now in its fourth day
[0:41] around the compound of a heavily armed
[0:43] anti-US government hate group in
[0:45] Montana. They call themselves quote the
[0:48] Freemen. They say they do not obey the
[0:50] laws of the United States. Federal peace
[0:53] officers say these people are not just
[0:55] an isolated group. Federal
[0:57] investigations are underway into similar
[0:59] groups believed connected in at least
[1:02] six states. They are accused of trying
[1:04] to finance their racist, anti-semitic,
[1:06] anti-American movement with millions of
[1:08] dollars in phony checks and threatening
[1:11] murder and mayhem against anyone
[1:13] challenging them. CBS News correspondent
[1:16] John Blackstone is covering the siege in
[1:18] Big Sky Country.
[1:21] With roadblocks and FBI patrols, the
[1:24] roads around the Montana ranch of the
[1:25] fugitives who call themselves freemen
[1:28] were busy and at times tense today.
[1:30] Although what may have been guns were
[1:32] sometimes evident far in the distance,
[1:34] the FBI reported no arrests, no weapons
[1:37] seized. Federal authorities now say at
[1:40] least 10 fugitives are holding out