CBS Evening News - 1996-03-13
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[0:02] A major split in the tobacco industry.
[0:04] For the first time ever, a cigarette
[0:06] maker agrees to cough up money to settle
[0:09] a smoking liability suit. Reports from
[0:11] Jim Stewart and Mike Wallace. In
[0:14] Scotland, the slaughter of innocents. A
[0:16] gunman opens fire on a kindergarten
[0:19] class. The summit of peacemakers. World
[0:22] leaders declare new war on terrorism.
[0:25] And the safety of the chicken you eat.
[0:28] The government may be backing off a plan
[0:31] to require tougher screening for
[0:32] bacteria.
[0:35] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:39] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:42] headquarters in New York.
[0:44] >> Good evening. A quiet ancient town at
[0:47] the edge of the Scottish Highlands is in
[0:49] shock tonight. Suddenly, it is the scene
[0:51] of a mass murder, the worst in British
[0:54] history. The victims, a class of
[0:56] kindergarten children slaughtered along
[0:58] with their teacher by a gunman who then
[1:00] killed himself. Correspondent Cindy
[1:02] Canard is there.
[1:04] Word of the massacre reached parents in
[1:07] this small Scottish village instantly,
[1:09] sending panicked fathers and mothers
[1:11] racing toward the school just an hour
[1:13] after they dropped their children off
[1:14] for class. I just can't believe it. I
[1:17] just hope he's all right.
[1:20] Just really good. See if he's all right.
[1:22] I'm numb. I'm absolutely numb. I just
[1:25] can't believe something like this has
[1:27] happened.
[1:28] >> Neither could the young children who'd
[1:29] heard the horror.
[1:31] >> We heard these gunshots in the gym. You
[1:33] looked down. You thought, "Oh, he must
[1:34] just be firing a target or something."
[1:36] >> It was gunshots and we were very scared.
[1:41] >>