CBS Evening News - 2007-11-04
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[0:01] Tonight, mass arrests in Pakistan as
[0:04] General Masharov consolidates emergency
[0:06] rule in the face of stiff criticism from
[0:09] the United States. I'm Thaurus.
[0:12] >> You think the show is not funny now?
[0:14] Wait till the writers go on strike.
[0:16] >> TV and screenwriter contract talks go
[0:18] down to the wire, raising the threat of
[0:20] a strike when the clock strikes
[0:22] midnight.
[0:23] And a war of words over a Cold War
[0:26] relic. Should a symbol of oppression be
[0:28] saved?
[0:35] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Russ
[0:39] Mitchell.
[0:40] >> Good evening everyone. Russ is off
[0:42] tonight. We begin with the crisis in
[0:44] Pakistan where General Perves Musharov,
[0:46] a key US ally in the war on terror, is
[0:49] tightening his grip on power. Here's the
[0:51] latest. Mashar's forces have arrested at
[0:53] least a thousand political opponents.
[0:55] His prime minister says elections could
[0:57] be delayed for as long as a year and the
[1:00] US says it will now review billions of
[1:03] dollars in aid. From Islamabad, here's
[1:06] Sheila McVicker.
[1:08] >> Tonight, just over 24 hours after
[1:10] Pakistan's military leader imposed
[1:12] emergency rule, streets in the capital
[1:14] are closed off, the route to the Supreme
[1:16] Court blocked. Independent news media
[1:19] remains silenced. Criticizing the
[1:21] president or the prime minister is now a
[1:23] crime. Police are carrying out waves of
[1:26] arrests. Musharaf has been silencing his
[1:29] opponents around the country. Human
[1:31] rights organizations have been shut
[1:32] down. More than a thousand political
[1:35] opponents and lawyers have been ordered
[1:37] arrested. Some like the former head of
[1:39] the Supreme Court are under house