CBS Evening News - 1985-12-12
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[0:05] It was supposed to be a homecoming, a
[0:07] flight back to home base in Kentucky in
[0:09] time for Christmas. Instead, 250 US
[0:13] soldiers died by fire in the snow
[0:17] in a crash on a cold island in Canada.
[0:20] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening
[0:22] News, Dan Rather reporting. It happened
[0:24] this morning just after a refueling stop
[0:26] of their chartered Arrow Air DC-8 jet at
[0:30] Gander Airport, Newfoundland. Cause of
[0:32] the crash still unknown tonight. There
[0:34] are no known survivors. Part of what is
[0:37] known, today's crash made the worst ever
[0:39] year in the history of commercial
[0:41] aviation deadlier still.
[0:44] Making the tragedy an irony worse still,
[0:47] they died coming home for the holidays
[0:49] after peacekeeping duties in the Sinai
[0:51] Desert.
[0:52] Hopes for reunion and joy of the season
[0:55] died at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and
[0:57] beyond.
[0:58] Our coverage begins with Bill Whitaker
[1:00] at the scene of the crash.
[1:03] It happened only moments after takeoff.
[1:05] The stretch DC-8 having just taken on 50
[1:08] tons of aviation fuel crashed and
[1:10] burned. All 250 servicemen and eight
[1:14] crew members died. Although it was
[1:16] overcast and light snow had fallen,
[1:18] authorities ruled out weather as a cause
[1:20] and both Canadian and American officials
[1:23] said they'd found nothing to indicate
[1:24] sabotage. A cockpit voice recorder was
[1:27] recovered, but there was concern that
[1:29] the fire and heat may have damaged it.
[1:32] Air Canada's Bruce Reed flew over the
[1:34] site soon after the charter plane
[1:36] crashed. It say it it exploded obviously
[1:38] on impact and
[1:40] you know, everything in the area is
[1:41] charred. So. It exploded on impact? It
[1:43] didn't explode in the air? No, we have
[1:45] no indication that it exploded in the
[1:46] air.
[1:47] Judy Parsons saw what happened from the
[1:49] ground.
[1:50] All of a sudden I saw this flash in the
[1:51] sky. It was just like It's like a
[1:53] sunset.
[1:55] And lasted for about 2 seconds and right
[1:57] after I saw this explosion.
[1:59] The flight had originated in Cairo where
[2:01] the infantrymen and paratroopers had
[2:03] just completed 6 months of duty in the
[2:05] Sinai. From Egypt, the plane refueled in
[2:08] Cologne, West Germany then headed to
[2:10] Newfoundland to take on more fuel before
[2:12] taking off for Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
[2:15] Late today, a team of Pentagon and US
[2:17] civil aviation experts arrived to
[2:19] investigate and return the remains to
[2:21] Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for
[2:23] identification.
[2:25] And so a flight that began with hope for
[2:27] the holidays ends so very tragically. As
[2:30] one eyewitness put it, they were all
[2:32] young men who had so much more to live
[2:34] for.
[2:35] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Gander,
[2:37] Newfoundland.
[2:38] A big holiday welcome home party had
[2:40] been planned for this morning at this
[2:42] gymnasium at Fort Campbell. Instead, it
[2:44] became a gathering place for grieving
[2:46] families.
[2:47] Off the base, Tina Rar waited with her
[2:50] 4-month-old son Michael who her husband
[2:52] had never seen. And he had called me
[2:54] from Newfoundland at 3:30 this morning
[2:56] our time
[2:58] and said he would be home.
[3:00] And then
[3:02] I turned on the news at 6:30 this
[3:03] morning
[3:04] and found out. This afternoon, Army
[3:06] officials began the grim task of
[3:08] notifying other relatives by telephone.
[3:11] And there'll be somebody contacting you,
[3:13] okay? They'll come to the home there and
[3:15] talk with you, all right?
[3:17] Some members of the unit remained in the
[3:19] Sinai. For their families, there was
[3:21] good news this afternoon.
[3:23] Thank God my husband wasn't one.
[3:26] This was the homecoming 2 years ago when
[3:28] members of the same unit returned from a
[3:30] similar peacekeeping mission. Scenes
[3:32] everyone expected to be repeated today.
[3:35] Instead, the fort is in shock. It will
[3:37] have a tremendous impact on this
[3:39] division for a long time to come
[3:42] but we will
[3:43] take care of our family members that are
[3:46] in grief.
[3:47] We'll reconstitute our forces
[3:49] and we will continue the mission.
[3:51] General Patrick said everyone of Fort
[3:53] Campbell's 17,000 soldiers will attend a
[3:55] memorial service next week.
[3:58] Bruce Hall, CBS News, Fort Campbell,
[4:00] Kentucky.
[4:02] Stressing again the cause of the crash
[4:03] is unknown and that the Pentagon says
[4:05] there is no reason to suspect sabotage.
[4:08] Still in Beirut tonight, a caller to
[4:10] news agencies is boasting that the
[4:12] radical Islamic Jihad was responsible
[4:14] for this disaster. The DC-8 jetliner
[4:17] that crashed today came off the line and
[4:18] into service in 1969.
[4:21] It had been worked by five different
[4:23] airlines, logged 50,000 hours in the
[4:26] air, flown 27 million miles until today.
[4:31] The latest and last owner, the charter
[4:33] company Arrow Air, had been cited for US
[4:36] federal safety rule violations. Peter
[4:38] Van Sant has been investigating.
[4:42] Miami-based Arrow Airways has been
[4:44] flying military charters since 1982. The
[4:47] Pentagon says the peacekeeping forces
[4:49] use chartered aircraft to save money.
[4:51] Arrow Airways officials say they run a
[4:53] safe airline. What is your safety
[4:55] record?
[4:56] Excellent. This is the first fatality
[4:58] that we've had.
[5:00] While the cause of today's crash is not
[5:02] known, Arrow Airways has a troubled
[5:04] past. Aviation safety watchdog John
[5:06] Gallipolis. They have had a history of
[5:10] discrepancies with respect to
[5:12] maintenance.
[5:13] Arrow Airways was cited for scores of
[5:15] FAA safety violations after last year's
[5:17] massive federal inspection of all the
[5:19] nation's airlines. An FAA spokesman says
[5:22] several special inspections uncovered
[5:24] more than 10 airworthiness violations
[5:26] against Arrow. In June, the airline was
[5:29] fined $34,000 for the violations which
[5:32] included delaying needed maintenance and
[5:34] incomplete crew training.
[5:36] CBS News has been told that last year
[5:38] the FAA sent a message to all of its
[5:40] flight standard offices asking
[5:42] inspectors to pay special attention to
[5:44] all Arrow jets. Arrow Air
[5:47] does not enjoy a very good reputation
[5:51] within the industry and they are being
[5:53] watched very carefully.
[5:55] Other critics say there aren't enough
[5:56] FAA inspectors to keep an eye on the
[5:58] hundreds of US carriers.
[6:01] The FAA is not
[6:02] able to to literally stand there like a
[6:05] policeman looking over the shoulder of
[6:07] every mechanic in every place. 1985 has
[6:10] become the deadliest year in the history
[6:12] of commercial aviation. 520 people died
[6:15] in a Japan Airlines accident. 329 people
[6:19] were killed when an Air India 747
[6:21] crashed at sea. Another 137 people died
[6:24] in Dallas last summer when their jet
[6:26] crashed in a storm. In all, 1,948
[6:30] people have died in major airline
[6:32] accidents this year.
[6:33] Peter Van Sant, CBS News, Atlanta.
[6:36] The young Americans who died today
[6:38] trying to make it home had been
[6:39] thousands of miles from home, sent not
[6:42] to fight but to try to keep others from
[6:44] fighting. David Martin looks now at the
[6:46] largely unsung mission of those who live
[6:50] danger and loneliness for the cause of
[6:52] peace.
[6:54] Until today, they were forgotten
[6:56] soldiers stationed at a lonely outpost
[6:58] in a barren land. 800 Americans in the
[7:00] Sinai Desert serving 6-month tours as
[7:03] part of an international peacekeeping
[7:04] force. Before going home, some of those
[7:07] who died left Christmas messages on the
[7:09] walls of Israeli bars. Some of the
[7:11] friends they made in those bars
[7:13] remembered them. Everybody really sad
[7:16] about it.
[7:19] Especially here. We know
[7:21] we have a connection together. Some of
[7:24] the soldiers who stayed behind struggled
[7:26] to comprehend. I can't believe
[7:29] believe it happened so close to
[7:30] Christmas and
[7:31] and the families really looking forward
[7:33] to being home. American soldiers are in
[7:35] the Sinai because of this, the 1978
[7:38] Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty under
[7:40] which Israel withdrew its forces from
[7:42] the Sinai. 2 years ago, CBS News talked
[7:44] to some of the soldiers there.
[7:46] Well, we're here to observe and report
[7:48] all Egyptian activity.
[7:51] Boats that go by.
[7:53] Overflights. It wasn't combat, but there
[7:55] were hazards. You want some danger?
[7:57] We're surrounded by minefields all
[7:59] around here. So, I guess that's pretty
[8:00] dangerous. There's a terrible irony and
[8:03] a terrible tragedy in this beyond the
[8:05] deaths of the the these young men
[8:07] that they have been serving a vital
[8:09] interest to the United States in an
[8:10] unsung role of helping to provide peace
[8:13] in an area that so rarely knows any
[8:16] peace at all.
[8:17] Christmas is the loneliest time for
[8:19] Americans in the Sinai. Two Christmases
[8:21] ago, the Pentagon asked some of the
[8:23] soldiers there to send video letters
[8:24] home. Knowing that I serve in keeping
[8:27] the peace here makes me feel good inside
[8:31] and it's just I think that's what
[8:31] Christmas is all about.
[8:33] David Martin, CBS News, The Pentagon.
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[9:50] It's official, it's the law. President
[9:52] Reagan today signed what he hopes will
[9:54] prove to be the landmark bill that
[9:56] requires no federal budget deficit by
[9:58] 1991. It's over, but the shouting hasn't
[10:01] stopped. Even President Reagan noted
[10:04] some question about whether some parts
[10:06] of this bill that would require either
[10:07] higher taxes or lower government
[10:09] spending to bring the budget deficit to
[10:11] zero are legal.
[10:13] Today's bill signing was low-profile,
[10:15] not even a photo opportunity.
[10:17] For public consumption, the president
[10:18] wanted to stress his not-so-slow burn
[10:21] over how House Republicans last night
[10:23] helped bury his number one priority
[10:25] bill, tax overhaul, and how he's
[10:27] pressuring them again today to dig it up
[10:29] and pass it. Phil Jones reports on
[10:32] dialing for tax dollars reform, part
[10:35] two.
[10:37] Treasury Secretary Baker and White House
[10:39] Chief of Staff Regan were on the hill
[10:41] working desperately to save tax reform
[10:43] today. We're still working to get votes
[10:46] for both the rule
[10:48] and for final passage. We think we're
[10:50] making progress and we're going to keep
[10:52] after it. But some Democrats were saying
[10:55] time is running out. If the president
[10:57] can't very soon put together the
[11:01] needed number of Republican votes, then
[11:02] I think tax reform is dead for 1985 and
[11:05] probably for a long time.
[11:07] The problem is Republicans won't
[11:09] reconsider a Democratic tax bill unless
[11:11] they have a chance of amending it. And
[11:13] their leaders were trying today to calm
[11:15] the troops upset by suspicions of deals
[11:18] between the White House and Democrats.
[11:20] There's some things that Mr. Baker I
[11:22] find out after talking to him yesterday
[11:24] had no part in whatsoever
[11:27] and
[11:28] and frankly is being accused of dealing
[11:30] with the Democrats when in fact there
[11:32] was no contact for 2 and 1/2 weeks when
[11:34] things were going on. Many Republicans
[11:36] say James Baker and Donald Regan
[11:38] ill-served the president. President kind
[11:40] of got double-teamed by people who had
[11:43] the best of intentions, I'm sure, but I
[11:45] think kind of sandbagged the president
[11:47] on this one.
[11:48] Tonight, the advice from Republican
[11:50] leaders to their president is don't risk
[11:52] any more losses now. The president
[11:54] should take his lumps and come back next
[11:57] year.
[11:57] Phil Jones, CBS News, Capitol Hill.
[12:00] General Electric and RCA, two of
[12:03] America's biggest and best-known
[12:04] companies, went their separate ways
[12:06] after working closely together in
[12:08] earlier decades of this century. But in
[12:10] a dramatic move last night, the two
[12:12] announced plans to merge, a joining of
[12:14] two electronics and defense industry
[12:16] giants complete with a major television
[12:18] network. Now, Bernard Goldberg looks
[12:20] behind the scenes at this high-tech
[12:22] multi-billion-dollar Wall Street way.
[12:26] It would be the biggest non-oil merger
[12:29] in US corporate history. GE agreeing to
[12:32] buy RCA for $6,280,000
[12:36] cash. We not only will have the
[12:38] strongest end engine business, the
[12:40] strongest financial services company,
[12:42] the strongest materials company.
[12:44] Everyone will now have the strongest
[12:46] network.
[12:48] We'll have a stronger defense piece.
[12:50] This is going to be one dynamite
[12:52] company. You can cry if you want to.
[12:55] Maybe later.
[12:58] One of the companies GE gets for its $6
[13:00] billion plus is NBC, which is part of
[13:03] RCA's vast holdings. That would make a
[13:05] GE-RCA merger the second network
[13:08] takeover this year. ABC was bought out
[13:10] in March.
[13:12] This is a major coup for General
[13:13] Electric.
[13:14] And I think the people at NBC are going
[13:16] to be happy. After all, they're the
[13:18] jewel in the crown and they're going to
[13:20] be kept polished.
[13:22] The proposed merger is a renewal of an
[13:24] old relationship. It was GE, which was
[13:26] founded by Thomas Edison, he's in the
[13:28] middle, that helped create RCA in the
[13:30] first place back in 1919.
[13:33] They started out in radio, but in 1939,
[13:36] at the World's Fair, RCA unveiled
[13:38] television to the public for the very
[13:40] first time. The ultimate victory.
[13:44] Since then, RCA has expanded into space
[13:46] technology. GE has gone from the light
[13:49] bulb to jet engines and computers.
[13:51] Today, there were handshakes for the
[13:53] cameras, but also rumors that it was a
[13:55] shotgun wedding, that RCA had been
[13:57] against the merger, rumors that RCA's
[13:59] chairman tried to put down.
[14:01] >> RCA wants this merger. The merger still
[14:05] needs government approval, but in this
[14:07] anything goes merger mania atmosphere,
[14:10] that's not expected to be much of a
[14:11] problem.
[14:13] Bernard Goldberg, CBS News, New York.
[14:16] The Commerce Department today reported
[14:17] that retail sales edged up 1.1% in
[14:21] November as auto and department store
[14:23] sales improved.
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[15:36] The Soviet Union and Cuba have thousands
[15:39] of troops in Ethiopia. You may have
[15:40] wondered what they are doing there.
[15:43] Watch and listen to Steve Kroft narrate
[15:45] from London exclusive new CBS News
[15:47] footage from inside Ethiopia.
[15:50] Refugees from northern Ethiopia's
[15:52] Eritrea province are again moving across
[15:55] the border into Sudan.
[15:57] But this year, it's not drought and
[15:58] famine that have pushed them off the
[16:00] land. This year, it's war.
[16:05] While the United States and other
[16:06] Western countries have been pouring food
[16:08] and humanitarian aid into Ethiopia, the
[16:11] Soviets have been pouring in weapons to
[16:13] arm the Marxist government's latest
[16:15] offensive against the Eritrean rebels.
[16:19] These pictures taken last month by
[16:21] freelance cameraman Steve Levitt show
[16:23] both the Russians' resolve and the death
[16:25] and destruction of a trench war that is
[16:27] now 23 years old.
[16:31] Across the ridgeline sits the Ethiopian
[16:33] government's 43rd division and its
[16:35] Soviet advisers. In a field nearby, with
[16:38] buzzards overhead, lie perhaps 4,000
[16:41] comrades killed in a single day and
[16:44] stripped by the rebels of their guns,
[16:46] ammunition, and tanks.
[16:49] The rebels control the countryside, the
[16:51] government holds the cities except for
[16:53] this one, Nakfa, the symbol of the
[16:55] resistance, bombed flat now except for a
[16:58] minaret the MIGs use as the reference
[17:00] point for bombing runs.
[17:08] By day, the women and children who
[17:10] remain take refuge among the rocks of a
[17:12] nearby river valley.
[17:14] Underground, Eritrean doctors educated
[17:16] in Europe, the United States, and Israel
[17:19] labored to save the wounded.
[17:21] This 8-year-old was hit by shrapnel from
[17:23] a Russian-made cluster bomb. His brother
[17:26] and sister were killed.
[17:28] Other children bear the horrible scars
[17:30] of napalm, which the Ethiopian
[17:32] government is using to scorch the newly
[17:34] green fields. A year ago, the United
[17:37] States had hopes of weaning the
[17:38] Ethiopian government away from the
[17:40] Soviet camp by feeding the country's
[17:42] starving.
[17:43] But the overtures have failed. The
[17:45] Marxist government has chosen guns over
[17:47] butter and is now, as one American
[17:50] diplomat put it, deeper in the arms of
[17:52] the Soviet Union than ever before.
[17:55] Steve Kroft, CBS News, London.
[17:58] Federal authorities are investigating
[18:00] what may be the illegal exporting of
[18:02] military equipment to Israel. What's
[18:04] involved in this latest case is an
[18:05] improved process for the manufacture of
[18:08] 120-mm cannon barrels. The process was
[18:11] developed at an arsenal in New York
[18:12] State. According to allegations, the
[18:14] process and its equipment were shipped
[18:17] to Israel without the required special
[18:19] export license.
[18:32] In Greece, gifts are exchanged on St.
[18:34] Basil's Day.
[18:36] In Venezuela, on the Feast of the
[18:38] Epiphany.
[18:40] In fact, the world has almost as many
[18:41] days for giving as there are gifts. Yet
[18:44] millions of people give the same thing,
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[18:53] it is
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[18:56] Pulsar, the world knows a great watch
[18:59] when it sees one.
[19:04] Mercedes-Benz has engineered a stunning
[19:06] new line of performance automobiles for
[19:09] 1986, but none more stunning than this.
[19:13] Introducing the 300E Sedan, a bold
[19:17] forward leap in performance technology,
[19:20] creating a new class of performance
[19:22] automobile. The 300E Sedan for 1986.
[19:27] Mercedes-Benz
[19:28] widens the gap.
[19:32] As of Monday, the National Centers for
[19:34] Disease Control reported 15,403
[19:37] cases of AIDS in this country. There
[19:40] have been 7,827
[19:42] deaths from the disease.
[19:45] As of tonight, what does medicine know
[19:48] about AIDS, about its threat to the
[19:50] heterosexual community, about its likely
[19:52] growth
[19:53] In the first of two reports, Susan
[19:55] Spencer explains why the answers to
[19:57] those questions are tentative and
[19:59] troubling.
[20:02] Much of what we know about AIDS today is
[20:05] due to people like John Berliner. He is
[20:07] one of 500 homosexual men in San
[20:10] Francisco who happened to give blood for
[20:12] hepatitis testing in the 70s. Blood
[20:14] samples that are a goldmine today for
[20:17] researchers trying to stalk this new
[20:19] killer to understand who gets AIDS and
[20:22] why.
[20:23] It is of more than academic interest to
[20:25] John Berliner who tests positive for the
[20:27] virus. You know, you always wonder,
[20:29] well,
[20:31] is it going to happen to me? Am I going
[20:33] to get AIDS?
[20:34] Estimates of the number of Americans
[20:36] infected right now run as high as 2
[20:39] million. How many of them ultimately
[20:41] will get sick? Guesses run from 10 to
[20:44] 50%. The virus's true incubation time is
[20:48] still one of its best-kept secrets. What
[20:51] will happen in another 5, 10, or 20
[20:53] years is totally unknown. There may be
[20:56] uh
[20:57] a highly susceptible population which
[21:00] gets full-blown AIDS and then other
[21:02] individuals carry the virus for longer
[21:04] periods of time before they manifest
[21:06] disease. That could be the reason why
[21:09] nationally the epidemic has slowed down
[21:11] somewhat. It used to take only 5 months
[21:14] for the number of new AIDS cases to
[21:16] double. It now takes 13. And in San
[21:19] Francisco, the new case rate actually
[21:21] has stayed the same for the last year
[21:23] due in large part to changes in sexual
[21:25] behavior among gays. I think there is
[21:28] some some optimism that the that the
[21:30] disease has that there is some end in
[21:32] sight for the for the continued
[21:33] increase. The good news that AIDS may be
[21:36] leveling off in the gay community is
[21:37] tempered for some by a new fear that
[21:40] this virus could spread to straight
[21:42] America.
[21:43] The specter is Africa where almost as
[21:46] many women as men have the disease where
[21:48] AIDS seems to be a heterosexual problem.
[21:51] That is not the case in this country
[21:54] where heterosexual cases have held at
[21:55] about 1% of the total since the epidemic
[21:58] began. Only 156 cases so far. Um I guess
[22:03] it would be that it won't increase
[22:04] dramatically and involve
[22:06] very, very large
[22:08] numbers of the population, but I think
[22:10] that there will be a steady and
[22:11] substantial increase.
[22:13] As for the fear that prostitutes will
[22:15] dramatically speed that up, of all the
[22:17] heterosexual cases, only 18 involve
[22:21] women giving AIDS to men. Female
[22:23] transmission appears rare. Straight
[22:26] America, many think, should be more
[22:27] worried about AIDS from another source.
[22:30] Heterosexually, we're talking more about
[22:32] a drug use-related disease. The vast
[22:34] majority of heterosexual cases came via
[22:38] the drug use route. And in trying to
[22:40] quell panic over AIDS, the experts
[22:42] always stress what's been said so often,
[22:45] that it is clearly not spread through
[22:47] casual contact, that behavior has
[22:50] everything to do with it. I think we can
[22:52] tell heterosexuals right now that if
[22:55] they do have sex with a risk group
[22:57] member, if they have sex with a bisexual
[22:59] man, with an intravenous drug abuser,
[23:01] that they are running some risk of
[23:02] contracting AIDS. You have to go out and
[23:04] get AIDS. It doesn't come and get you.
[23:08] But for those who already have AIDS,
[23:10] what hope is there now? A look in
[23:12] tomorrow's report. Susan Spencer, CBS
[23:15] News, San Francisco.
[23:18] Academy Award-winning actress Anne
[23:20] Baxter died today in a New York
[23:21] hospital. Anne Baxter was 62. She never
[23:24] regained consciousness after suffering a
[23:26] cerebral hemorrhage December 4th while
[23:28] walking along Madison Avenue.
[23:30] She won the 1946 Academy Award for
[23:32] supporting actress as the young
[23:34] alcoholic in The Razor's Edge. But Anne
[23:37] Baxter may be best remembered for her
[23:39] portrayal of the two-faced schemer in
[23:42] All About Eve.
[23:46] Although I am going to Hollywood next
[23:48] week to make a film,
[23:50] do not think for a moment that I'm
[23:52] leaving you.
[23:54] How could I?
[23:56] Anne Baxter, who recently starred in the
[23:58] television series Hotel, once said,
[24:00] "Acting is not what I do, it's what I
[24:02] am. My permanent, built-in cathedral."
[24:24] Break free and feel.
[24:26] Feel how splendid you are with the
[24:29] fragrance created by Gloria Vanderbilt.
[24:33] Vanderbilt, a rich, expressive fragrance
[24:36] that reveals to the world just how
[24:38] splendid you are.
[24:41] Vanderbilt,
[24:42] let it release the splendor of you.
[24:45] Vanderbilt.
[24:47] Like I told Santa, I've been very, very
[24:50] good. So her mom got cakes and pies at
[24:52] Baskin-Robbins. I got these 101
[24:55] Dalmatians stickers free.
[25:02] In a courtroom, you want facts. When you
[25:05] buy insurance, you want facts. That's
[25:07] why for over 25 years, I've done
[25:09] business only with an independent
[25:11] insurance agent. He doesn't work for
[25:13] just one company, he represents several,
[25:15] the more than one company agent.
[25:18] It's the season for holiday giving and
[25:20] Norelco has the quality gifts to give.
[25:23] Give him a blade-close shave or put a
[25:25] shine on his shoes. Give her sleek new
[25:27] ways to stay beautiful or a bright new
[25:29] way to start the day. Give a blood
[25:32] pressure meter, fabric steamer, travel
[25:34] iron, cordless hand vac, or the ultimate
[25:36] in ironing needs. For quality holiday
[25:39] gifts, it's Norelco cuz even our name
[25:41] says Merry Christmas.
[25:49] Recapping the tragedy of today's
[25:50] airplane crash on Newfoundland Island,
[25:52] Canada, all aboard the civilian Aero Air
[25:55] Charter flight from Cairo, Egypt to
[25:56] Kentucky, USA by way of West Germany and
[25:59] Newfoundland, all 250 US soldiers and
[26:02] all crew of eight were killed in the
[26:04] crash. What caused the plane to go down
[26:06] right after refueling at Gander Airport
[26:08] in Canada, still unknown.
[26:11] Tragedy knows no season, but today's
[26:14] tragedy is especially painful.
[26:20] It comes at a time of traditional joy
[26:22] and celebration.
[26:23] Celebration of rebirth of faith.
[26:26] Celebration of a miracle of the flame
[26:27] that refused to be snuffed out. The
[26:30] trappings of joy all around us today for
[26:32] the season.
[26:33] The national Christmas tree lighting
[26:34] tonight by the president.
[26:43] But now added to the traditional
[26:44] trappings, the unexpected symbols of
[26:47] grief
[26:48] unfurled and half-staff on flagpoles and
[26:52] on faces.
[26:53] In a season of faith, remembering that
[26:56] those who died in the service of their
[26:58] country today were coming home from a
[27:00] mission of peace in the Sinai.
[27:05] In the face of this cruel irony,
[27:08] remembering the words, the ancient
[27:09] words,
[27:11] "Blessed are the peacemakers,
[27:13] for they shall be called the children of
[27:14] God."
[27:16] Dan Rather, for CBS News. Good night.
[27:23] MasterCard
[27:25] Fill my flat.
[27:34] Your taste is impeccable.
[27:42] Home
[27:44] is where the card is.
[27:55] If you've got a lot of men to buy for,
[27:57] but not a lot of ideas, come to Sears.
[28:00] Save 50% on this Craftsman drill and
[28:02] circular saw or this Craftsman tool set.
[28:06] Need more ideas? This cassette car
[28:08] stereo is half price. And this Craftsman
[28:10] timing light is only $29.99.
[28:13] Plus, Sears has dozens of hardware gifts
[28:15] for under $15. Shall I go on?
[28:19] There's more
[28:26] You know what your problem is, Eric?
[28:28] Alice?
[28:29] >> You're 43 years old and you still eat
[28:31] cold pizza and donuts for breakfast.
[28:33] >> So that's it.
[28:34] >> All that sugar, all those preservatives.
[28:36] Hold it. Should I try Nutri-Grain? Yeah.
[28:39] Delicious Nutri-Grain, only the whole
[28:41] grain with no preservatives and no sugar
[28:43] added. Goodbye. Oh, wait. Does this mean
[28:46] you love me?
[28:47] Yes.
[28:48] >> Kellogg's Nutri-Grain cereal.
[28:57] This is CBS.
[29:02] In our news tonight, the Mid-South is in
[29:04] mourning after a plane carrying Fort
[29:06] Campbell soldiers crashes in Canada.
[29:09] We'll have more in a live satellite 5
[29:11] report next on Eyewitness News. Stay