CBS Evening News - 2002-04-05
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[0:00] And while the selection is best, drive a
[0:02] little, save a lot with a quick trip to
[0:04] Scampoo during our spring special at
[0:06] Brown's Landing. Loretta Lynn, the
[0:09] Scorpion King, and Bert Reynolds next.
[0:14] >> Cracking Arafat's isolation. Israel
[0:17] expands its military operations in the
[0:20] West Bank. Is Gaza next? And a US envoy
[0:23] finally meets with Yaser Arafat, the
[0:26] Holy Land from on high. Seeing how
[0:29] geography contributes to the war. The
[0:32] Catholic Church sex abuse scandal now
[0:35] includes a death as an accused priest
[0:38] commits suicide. And US veterans of the
[0:41] deadliest battle in Afghanistan are
[0:44] heading home.
[0:52] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:55] Rather reporting tonight from Jerusalem.
[1:00] Good evening. Secretary of State Powell
[1:02] is coming here to the Middle East next
[1:03] week. But his message to Israel today
[1:06] was, "Don't wait for me to arrive.
[1:09] Withdraw your forces from Palestinian
[1:11] areas, quote, without delay." Pretty
[1:13] much what President Bush said 24 hours
[1:15] ago. But here in Jerusalem, there is no
[1:18] sense that Israel's military operations
[1:21] now in their second week are anywhere
[1:23] near finished. They are in fact
[1:25] expanding. Heavy fighting today,
[1:27] especially in and around Knobbas, killed
[1:29] about two dozen Palestinians, including
[1:31] a militant, blamed for the suicide
[1:33] bombing that triggered this West Bank
[1:35] war. CBS's Elizabeth Palmer begins our
[1:38] coverage.
[1:40] With Israeli soldiers deep inside
[1:42] Palestinian territory, the US Middle
[1:44] East envoy General Anthony Zinny finally
[1:46] met Yasser Arafat still trapped in his
[1:49] Ramala compound. Zinny delivered