CBS Evening News - 1995-12-05

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[0:02] The Bosnia Blueprint. The first full US

[0:05] advance team hits the ground in Tusla.

[0:07] Headquarters for 20,000 American

[0:10] soldiers on the way. Meet the result of

[0:13] pioneering transplant surgery on a fetus

[0:16] with a potentially fatal blood disorder.

[0:19] And one family's outrage, their child

[0:22] deliberately stabbed by a stranger's

[0:24] needle. The law says her asalant can

[0:26] refuse to disclose whether he has AIDS.

[0:33] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:37] Rather.

[0:38] >> Good evening. Advanced troops of the US

[0:40] and its allies are fanning out in

[0:42] Bosnia, setting their faces against the

[0:44] Balkan winter and Balkan history as they

[0:47] try to forge peace in Europe's crucible

[0:49] of conflict. NATO calls it Operation

[0:52] Joint Endeavor. US Defense Secretary

[0:54] William Perry today called it a moment

[0:56] of truth. We got the latest from

[0:58] correspondent David Martin at the

[0:59] Pentagon.

[1:02] The flow of US troops from bases in

[1:04] Europe into Bosnia continued today at

[1:06] just a trickle, but these troops are

[1:08] laying the groundwork to open the

[1:10] floodgates. After the peace treaty is

[1:12] signed next week, the US and its NATO

[1:14] allies will have just 96 hours to move

[1:16] in enough forces to take over from the

[1:18] long-suffering UN peacekeepers.

[1:21] And just 30 days after that, the US

[1:23] plans to have at least 10,000 troops in

[1:26] Bosnia, including an aviation brigade

[1:28] and an armored brigade complete with

[1:30] engineers ready to patrol the zone of

[1:32] separation between the Bosnian Serbs on

[1:34] one side and the Muslims and Croats on

[1:37] the other.

[1:37] >> They've agreed to separate their forces.

[1:39] So, it's their job to s

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