CBS Evening News - 1979-04-28

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[0:02] this is the CBS Evening News with Bob

[0:06] Schieffer

[0:07] good evening demonstrators outside a

[0:09] Manhattan hotel today carried not signs

[0:11] of protest but signs of thanks and

[0:13] welcome they were expressing Joy at

[0:15] yesterday's release of five Soviet

[0:17] dissidents flown to this country in

[0:19] exchange for two Soviet spies Inside the

[0:22] Hotel the five expressed their own

[0:24] thanks to President Carter to Congress

[0:25] and the American people and they told

[0:27] how they felt two reports first Mitchell

[0:30] Krauss in New York

[0:32] their faces told the stories of what

[0:34] they'd been through almost better than

[0:36] their words did Alexander Ginsburg human

[0:39] rights activist who had been serving a

[0:41] third prison term in a forced labor camp

[0:43] Valentin moros Ukrainian nationalist who

[0:46] almost died during a prison hunger

[0:48] strike Georgie Vin's Christian religious

[0:50] dissident who refused to submit to State

[0:52] Authority Mark dimshit Soviet Jew

[0:55] originally sentenced to death for

[0:57] hijacking a plane to escape to Israel

[0:59] and Edward kuznetsov also involved in

[1:02] the plane incident a Zionist and a

[1:04] writer who reacted to their sudden

[1:06] Freedom we are here in the United States

[1:09] and this is just as incredible as if we

[1:13] had found ourselves on the moon we have

[1:16] not as yet gained full Consciousness we

[1:19] still feel somewhat ill at ease towards

[1:21] civilian clothing we still have not

[1:24] grown accustomed to free faces

[1:26] expressing Good Will georgiven sentenced

[1:30] to Exile in Siberia by Soviet

[1:31] authorities for religious activities

[1:33] rejoiced in his freedom to hold a Bible

[1:36] for five years I have been deprived

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