CBS Evening News - 1983-10-25

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[0:00] good friends.

[0:00] >> Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:02] News, Dan Rather reporting. Added today

[0:04] to the 214 American servicemen now

[0:07] confirmed dead from the Beirut bombing

[0:09] are at least two more US military men

[0:12] killed during an invasion of the

[0:13] Caribbean island of Grenada. More than

[0:15] 20 other Americans were wounded, some of

[0:18] them seriously. About 1,900 US Army

[0:21] Rangers and Marines this morning

[0:23] assaulted the small island, which

[0:24] measures only 12 miles by 21 miles.

[0:28] Grenada's population is about 100

[0:29] 10,000, roughly the size of Cedar

[0:32] Rapids, Iowa.

[0:33] The US assault force later was joined by

[0:36] 300 representatives from six Caribbean

[0:38] nations. President Reagan explained a

[0:40] few hours later that he believed he had

[0:41] no choice, that the invasion was

[0:43] necessary to protect Americans on

[0:45] Grenada from a Cuban-connected military

[0:47] junta. The American military has not

[0:49] allowed any journalists on Grenada, so

[0:51] our coverage begins with Sandy Gilmore

[0:53] on Barbados, near Grenada, and with

[0:55] David Martin at the Pentagon.

[0:56] >> The invasion started before dawn this

[0:58] morning. The first public hint of what

[1:00] was happening was the departure of about

[1:01] 50 US Marines from the Barbados

[1:04] International Airport. Initial

[1:06] information was kept top secret, but

[1:07] about 2 hours after the attack began,

[1:09] CBS News took these pictures off the

[1:12] Grenada coast, an aircraft carrier,

[1:15] several warships, military helicopters.

[1:18] Marines took control of Grenada's

[1:20] airports and by 9:00, from a portable

[1:22] transmitter, began broadcasting a

[1:24] soothing message.

[1:26] Your cooperation will ensure that peace

[1:29] and democracy are restored in the near

[1:32] future.

[1:33] The international airport here at

[1:35] Bridgetown, Barbados became a military

[1:37] airport. Invasion forces, including US

[1:40] Marines, used it as a staging area.

[1:42] Caribbean countries were outraged at the

[1:44] bloody military takeover of last

[1:46] Wednesday, as their troops, including

[1:48] those from Jamaica, Barbados, and

[1:50] Dominica, were airlifted in during the

[1:52] day. Reports filtered in from Grenada.

[1:55] An American medical student, one of

[1:57] several hundred trapped on Grenada,

[1:58] spoke on ham radio. Okay, be advised

[2:01] that there are as the gun ships passed

[2:03] over, there were quite a bit of ground

[2:06] fire

[2:07] from the from the immediate area. Yeah,

[2:09] the gun fire is directly outside of our

[2:12] campus. So, it may be not more than uh

[2:14] than uh 100 ft 200 ft away. Over. All

[2:18] right, QSL the 600 over.

[2:21] Okay, I wanted the our our US uh

[2:24] Marines

[2:25] uh okay, the our US Marines uh As the

[2:27] hours went by, it was clear the US and

[2:30] Caribbean troops had gained control. A

[2:32] Barbados radio station talked to a man

[2:34] in Grenada by telephone, a happy man.

[2:37] Oh, God, man.

[2:40] Be free this time, really free.

[2:43] Sandy Gilmore, CBS News, Barbados.

[2:48] It was a classic pre-dawn strike. At

[2:50] 5:30 this morning, Army Rangers and

[2:52] Marine assault troops, 1,900 in all,

[2:55] seized the island's only two airfields.

[2:57] The Marines went into Pearls Airport by

[2:59] helicopter from amphibious ships

[3:01] offshore. The Rangers took Salinas

[3:03] Airport, some of them parachuting in to

[3:05] remove obstacles from the runway so

[3:08] airplanes could land with the rest of

[3:09] the invasion force. Psychological

[3:11] warfare teams set up radio transmitters

[3:13] and began calling on the defenders to

[3:15] lay down their arms, but some of them

[3:17] didn't. At one point, American planes

[3:19] came under fire from Soviet-made

[3:21] anti-aircraft battery, but were quickly

[3:23] silenced by Air Force AC-130 gunships.

[3:26] At least one US helicopter was forced

[3:28] down, although it is not clear whether

[3:30] by fire or mechanical difficulty. On the

[3:32] ground, American soldiers came under

[3:34] small arms fire, some of it coming from

[3:36] Cubans. There are 500 Cuban construction

[3:39] workers lengthening the runway at

[3:41] Salinas, and a much smaller number of

[3:43] Cuban military advisers at a nearby

[3:45] training camp for the tiny 1,200-man

[3:47] Grenadian army. Between 2,000 and 5,000

[3:50] members of the island militia were

[3:52] called up over the weekend as invasion

[3:54] fears mounted. Once the American Rangers

[3:57] took the airfield, they moved to secure

[3:58] the nearby campus of St. George's

[4:00] Medical School, home of roughly half the

[4:02] 1,000 Americans on the island. So far,

[4:05] US officials say no Americans have been

[4:07] evacuated. But US forces have more to do

[4:10] than just protect American citizens.

[4:13] They are there, in the words of a

[4:14] Pentagon briefer, to {quote} "neutralize

[4:17] the Grenadian armed forces, preferably

[4:19] by peaceful surrender, by force of arms

[4:22] if necessary." Reinforcements for the

[4:24] Marines are waiting offshore on the

[4:25] carrier Guam, along with air cover from

[4:28] the aircraft carrier Independence.

[4:30] Additional army troops would come from

[4:31] bases in the southern US.

[4:34] US officials insist American troops will

[4:36] leave Grenada in a matter of days as

[4:38] soon as a caretaker government can

[4:40] assume control. But first, Pentagon

[4:42] officials say all pockets of resistance

[4:44] must be cleared out. That could take

[4:46] time, and more importantly, it could

[4:48] cost lives. David Martin, CBS News, the

[4:51] Pentagon. In addition to at least two US

[4:53] servicemen killed in the invasion of

[4:55] Grenada, 14 Cubans were reported killed.

[4:58] It is not known how many Cubans may have

[5:00] been wounded. There are no reports of

[5:01] any civilians killed or wounded, either

[5:04] from Grenada or the United States, nor

[5:06] are there any reports of any Soviet

[5:08] casualties. The genesis of today's

[5:10] invasion was last Wednesday. Grenada's

[5:12] Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop

[5:13] had been under house arrest by more

[5:15] hardline Marxist military leaders.

[5:17] Thousands of Bishop's supporters freed

[5:19] him, and then escorted him to the center

[5:21] of the capital, St. George's. There,

[5:23] soldiers commanded by Cuban-trained

[5:25] General Hudson Austin shot and killed

[5:27] Bishop and several of his cabinet

[5:29] ministers. A 16-man military council was

[5:32] established with Austin as the leader.

[5:34] Bob Simon now takes a look at the

[5:36] argument for the strategic importance of

[5:38] Grenada to the United States.

[5:40] The Grenadans said their new all-weather

[5:43] night and day airport with its 10,000

[5:45] foot runway built by Cubans was for

[5:47] jumbo jets carrying tourists. Washington

[5:50] said, "Nonsense." The Grenadines said

[5:52] the new port facilities under

[5:54] construction were for banana boats.

[5:56] Washington said, "No way." Washington

[5:59] believed this tiniest Caribbean country

[6:02] was being redesigned from a tourist

[6:04] haven to a communist air base and a way

[6:06] station, a stopping off point for Cuban

[6:09] soldiers on their way to Africa, for

[6:11] East Bloc supplies on their way to

[6:13] Nicaragua.

[6:14] Why do it now? Well, last week's coup

[6:17] provided confusion and chaos, ideal

[6:20] cover for a counter coup. Do it now

[6:22] before the new government consolidates

[6:24] power and gains legitimacy.

[6:27] And then there were those American

[6:28] medical students, but a CIA official

[6:31] told the House Intelligence Committee

[6:32] today that he had no information about

[6:34] any threat to the students or any new

[6:36] threat to American security.

[6:39] Secretary Shultz spoke today about an

[6:41] atmosphere of violent uncertainty in

[6:43] Grenada, sort of difficult to imagine in

[6:46] this lyrical landscape beneath these

[6:48] cloud-shrouded hills. The beaches seem

[6:51] designed for sun worshipers, not

[6:53] Marines. Administration officials

[6:55] insisted today the Marines won't stay

[6:57] much longer than the standard package

[6:59] tour, but Maurice Bishop, the man whose

[7:02] death was used as an occasion for

[7:03] invasion, once warned that perhaps like

[7:06] Lebanon, his country is very easy to get

[7:09] to and very difficult to leave.

[7:12] We have spent a long, long time trying

[7:16] to develop friendly relations with the

[7:18] Americans.

[7:20] But if they send soldiers or mercenaries

[7:24] to fight in our country, they will

[7:27] discover it is easier to land than to

[7:31] leave. Bob Simon, CBS News, New York.

[7:34] The White House now says the Defense

[7:36] Department is saying that there are

[7:37] probably three Americans killed in the

[7:39] invasion. Cuba has been reporting what

[7:41] happened on Grenada, saying Cuban

[7:43] workers there were resisting. Moscow

[7:46] denounced the invasion and called for an

[7:48] immediate US withdrawal.

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[9:01] >> While planning for the US-led landing on

[9:03] Grenada was reportedly well underway

[9:04] last week, it was just hours before the

[9:06] troops landed that US congressional

[9:08] leaders got a full briefing. And tonight

[9:10] some in Congress are still full of

[9:12] doubt, and there is some anger. Lesley

[9:13] Stahl at the White House reports on

[9:15] President Reagan's explanation of why we

[9:17] were in Grenada, and Phil Jones has more

[9:19] on members of Congress who say we should

[9:21] not be.

[9:24] President Reagan said he ordered the

[9:25] invasion because about 1,000 Americans

[9:28] in Grenada were exposed to great danger

[9:30] from a brutal group of leftist thugs

[9:32] running the government. He said the

[9:34] action was taken at the request of

[9:35] Grenada's neighbors in the Caribbean.

[9:38] The United States' objectives are clear:

[9:40] to protect our own citizens, to

[9:42] facilitate the evacuation of those who

[9:44] want to leave, and to help in the

[9:45] restoration of democratic institutions

[9:48] in Grenada. The president made his

[9:50] announcement with the prime minister of

[9:51] the island of Dominica at his side. They

[9:54] were asked if the Soviets and Cubans

[9:56] were behind the coup in Grenada 2 weeks

[9:58] ago. We noted with great this the move

[10:02] in the 2 weeks before this action it

[10:04] took place, the movements between the

[10:06] Soviet embassies and known activists,

[10:09] and the activists return to Grenada.

[10:11] Obviously a conduit between some of

[10:14] these Russians. For the president, the

[10:16] decision to invade Grenada began to take

[10:18] shape on Saturday at 5:15 a.m. in

[10:21] Augusta, Georgia in a briefing with his

[10:23] two top foreign policy advisers. The

[10:26] White House released photographs to show

[10:27] the president hard at work early in the

[10:29] morning and to quash any thought that

[10:31] the Grenada operation was intended in

[10:34] any way to draw attention away from the

[10:36] disaster in Beirut. Well before the

[10:39] Beirut bombing at 5:58 a.m. Saturday,

[10:42] the president telephoned Vice President

[10:43] Bush who was convening a meeting on

[10:45] Grenada at the White House. As they

[10:47] finished nine holes of golf at 11:45,

[10:51] the president and the secretary of state

[10:52] got an update on the situation in

[10:54] Grenada from National Security Adviser

[10:56] McFarlane. And an hour later, Shultz was

[10:59] conferring with his aides at the State

[11:00] Department. Shortly after he gave his

[11:03] final approval for the invasion last

[11:05] night, the president met with

[11:06] congressional leaders in the White House

[11:08] and briefed them again this morning in

[11:09] the cabinet room. Officials say there

[11:11] was no opposition in these meetings.

[11:14] However, Prime Minister Margaret

[11:15] Thatcher of Britain told the president,

[11:17] as she told Parliament today, she

[11:19] thought the action was ill-advised.

[11:22] We communicated to the United States our

[11:24] very considerable doubts that Her

[11:26] Majesty's government had about

[11:28] initiating action, and also to weigh

[11:30] carefully several points before taking

[11:33] any irrevocable decision to act.

[11:36] Congressional critics say the invasion

[11:38] was without provocation and therefore

[11:40] illegal. They charge it was carried out

[11:42] only to install a friendly government.

[11:45] Charge denied. We will leave

[11:47] uh promptly. We have no intention of

[11:49] staying there. And the government that

[11:52] will be produced by the people of

[11:54] Grenada is entirely up to them as far as

[11:56] we're concerned. The president plans to

[11:58] go on television Thursday night to

[12:00] address the nation. Tonight, the

[12:02] president notified Congress under the

[12:03] War Powers Act. But as with the Marines

[12:06] in Beirut a year ago, he set no

[12:08] timetable for bringing the troops home.

[12:10] Lesley Stahl, CBS News, the White House.

[12:14] The Reagan administration did not seek

[12:16] prior congressional approval, but

[12:18] officials were scrambling to the hill

[12:20] today with their top secret evidence in

[12:22] an attempt to justify their actions to a

[12:24] jittery and in some cases critical

[12:27] Congress. This is an act of war

[12:30] and raises

[12:31] genuine questions about whether it is a

[12:33] violation of the charter of the United

[12:36] Nations,

[12:37] violation of the charter of the

[12:39] Organization of American States.

[12:41] Gunboat diplomacy has a new king. Move

[12:44] over, Teddy Roosevelt. That point of big

[12:48] stick diplomacy to achieve democracy was

[12:50] not one that Republicans could agree on

[12:52] today. Certainly we wanted to do

[12:54] everything we can to encourage that and

[12:56] we should and we have.

[12:58] Uh but to the extent of putting in armed

[13:01] forces to achieve that, I think that's

[13:03] going to that would lead to trouble. If

[13:05] we are not a nation which stands for

[13:09] uh stability and democratic institutions

[13:11] in this hemisphere elsewhere,

[13:13] then there is free prospecting for the

[13:14] Soviet Union and their clients all over

[13:16] the world.

[13:17] If the president can convince Congress

[13:19] that this mission was primarily for the

[13:21] security of Americans in Grenada, and if

[13:23] he gets US troops out quickly, this will

[13:25] probably not be a problem for him here

[13:27] in Congress. But any prolonged presence

[13:30] is sure to provoke a political feud in a

[13:33] Congress that is already upset over

[13:35] being left out of foreign policy

[13:37] decisions.

[13:38] Phil Jones, CBS News, Capitol Hill.

[13:52] I've made up my mind.

[13:54] Yeah.

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[14:51] In Beirut, the death toll from Sunday's

[14:52] terrorist bombings moved higher. The

[14:54] number of dead US Marines, sailors, and

[14:56] soldiers is now a confirmed 214.

[14:59] The number of dead French military men

[15:01] stands at 38. At the area around the

[15:03] destroyed US military headquarters

[15:05] today, the Marines went into their

[15:06] highest state of alert, ordered into

[15:08] bunkers, directed to shoot to kill. More

[15:10] on the alert from Tom Fenton.

[15:13] Marines sealed off their base after

[15:15] reports that three vehicles packed with

[15:17] explosives were circling nearby

[15:19] neighborhoods. The tension could be felt

[15:22] as guards kept their weapons at the

[15:24] ready and other Marines took shelter.

[15:26] Vehicles in the area were carefully

[15:28] checked while Marines and rescue workers

[15:30] continued to sift through the rubble of

[15:32] Sunday's explosion. Bodies were still

[15:35] being found.

[15:43] A young Lebanese woman who had recently

[15:44] married an American serviceman left

[15:47] grief-stricken after visiting the scene

[15:49] where he died. The serviceman had

[15:51] decided to return to Beirut from his

[15:53] honeymoon one day early and was killed

[15:55] in the blast. Later today, the

[15:58] commandant of the Marine Corps arrived

[16:00] in Beirut to review security for the

[16:02] Marines.

[16:03] I have been here twice in the last

[16:05] several months. I've looked at the

[16:06] security measures and have been most

[16:08] satisfied.

[16:09] I think one has to realize that if you

[16:11] have a determined individual

[16:14] who is willing to risk his life

[16:16] or rather give up his life in a

[16:18] situation like this that

[16:20] chances are he's going to get through

[16:21] and do that. General Kelly will stay for

[16:24] several days. While he's here, he may

[16:26] also study the role of the American

[16:28] contingent in the peacekeeping force.

[16:31] Any major change in the role of the

[16:33] multinational force would have

[16:34] far-reaching implications. Expansion of

[16:37] its area of operations could mean

[16:39] sending in many more men and a shift to

[16:41] an offensive role would mean becoming an

[16:43] active participant in what is still a

[16:45] Lebanese civil war. The 2,000-man French

[16:48] contingent is already stretched to the

[16:50] limit trying to police downtown Beirut.

[16:54] French, too, are still uncovering

[16:56] bodies, but there is no hope of finding

[16:58] any more alive.

[17:02] The Americans, like the French, are now

[17:04] getting near the end. They are

[17:05] approaching the bottom of the rubble

[17:07] where more Marines still lay buried.

[17:10] Tom Fenton, CBS News, Beirut.

[17:14] There are about 6,300 miles between

[17:15] Grenada and Lebanon and in his

[17:17] commentary tonight, Bill Moyers finds

[17:19] those nations are not only miles apart,

[17:21] but worlds apart. Bill?

[17:24] In a world where freedom has enemies,

[17:26] the use of force can be justified. The

[17:28] question is always when and where.

[17:31] Not all our enemies can harm us equally,

[17:33] and we ought to be careful to expend our

[17:35] treasure and lives on those who can

[17:37] truly hurt us.

[17:38] There's no satisfactory justification

[17:40] for the loss of all those Marines in

[17:41] Beirut in a cause so far removed from

[17:44] our national security. We have interests

[17:46] there, but they're poorly served by

[17:48] assigning men to a dubious mission

[17:50] exposed to factions of rival cutthroats,

[17:52] murderous gangs, and swarms of religious

[17:54] fanatics.

[17:56] If our credibility is at stake in

[17:57] Lebanon, as the president says, it's not

[18:00] enhanced by folly.

[18:01] Grenada, on the other hand, is not

[18:03] Lebanon. You can argue that a tiny

[18:05] island with a leftist government could

[18:07] scarcely have been more than a nuisance,

[18:09] if that. But then that huge airstrip

[18:11] appeared, built with Soviet and Cuban

[18:13] help, and harder-line Marxists trained

[18:15] in Cuba threw out the hardliners already

[18:17] in power. There followed a bloodletting

[18:19] similar to the one Marxists had already

[18:21] inflicted on opponents in nearby

[18:23] Suriname.

[18:24] You can hardly blame the peaceful

[18:25] islands around Grenada for being

[18:27] alarmed, or an American president for

[18:29] imagining the strategic consequences of

[18:31] yet another Soviet base in the

[18:33] Caribbean.

[18:34] John Kennedy almost went to war to get

[18:36] Soviet missiles out of Cuba, and Lyndon

[18:38] Johnson sent some 20,000 troops, of whom

[18:40] 28 died, to prevent a communist takeover

[18:43] in the Dominican Republic. So, it's not

[18:45] surprising that Mr. Reagan would also

[18:47] consider the use of force legitimate in

[18:49] the Caribbean.

[18:50] Whether the price was worth it depends

[18:52] on whether the result is to replace

[18:54] their thugs, as Mr. Reagan calls them,

[18:57] with our thugs, as happened in Guatemala

[18:59] and Chile, Chile, or whether the people

[19:01] of Grenada really get their freedom

[19:03] back. If this happens, there will be no

[19:05] less grief for the next of kin of the

[19:07] troops who died in Grenada than for

[19:09] those slain in Beirut. But at least,

[19:11] they can say mission accomplished. Dan.

[19:15] Thank you, Bill. We'll have more of the

[19:16] day's news in a moment, and tonight at

[19:18] 11:30, 10:30 Central Time, CBS News will

[19:20] present a special broadcast on today's

[19:22] invasion of Grenada.

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[20:36] inflation in September took its sharpest

[20:38] monthly increase since May. The report

[20:40] said the 5/10 of 1% jump in consumer

[20:43] prices was fed by increased costs for

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[20:49] quarters of the year still was at its

[20:51] lowest rate in a decade. Two actions by

[20:53] the House today on the federal budget.

[20:55] One vote to trim 10.3 billion from

[20:57] federal spending over three years. The

[20:59] other vote in favor of adding $100

[21:01] million back to the federal child

[21:04] nutrition program.

[21:06] After months deadlock and insistence by

[21:08] some in Congress that President Reagan

[21:09] is out of line, the president today went

[21:12] ahead anyway and fired three of his

[21:13] severest critics on the US Civil Rights

[21:16] Commission. President Reagan cited his

[21:18] right to make appointments.

[21:19] Congressional critics called the

[21:20] president's action wrong.

[21:23] It is obviously a step in a very strong

[21:27] and tough step on the part of the

[21:28] president to try to say I'll brook no

[21:30] criticism

[21:32] by the members of the Civil Rights

[21:34] Commission. And that I want to have one

[21:36] that in effect answers to me.

[21:40] And that isn't the way it's supposed to

[21:41] be. We're supposed to have an

[21:43] independent Civil Rights Commission.

[21:45] Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Los Angeles

[21:47] officials today said veteran television

[21:48] anchorman Jerry Dunphy is in

[21:50] satisfactory condition after being

[21:52] ambushed in his automobile outside ABC

[21:54] studios. Police said the 62-year-old

[21:56] Dunphy was shot in the neck and left

[21:58] arm. Also wounded was Sandra Marshall, a

[22:00] 36-year-old makeup artist who was with

[22:02] Dunphy last night when four assailants

[22:04] opened fire on Dunphy's car. The gunmen

[22:07] fled. Police say that no motive for the

[22:09] attack has been found.

[22:12] Less than a

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[23:53] >> Events these days move faster than our

[23:55] ability to comprehend them. The coup

[23:57] last week in Grenada seemed overshadowed

[23:59] Sunday by the calamity in Lebanon, only

[24:01] to come back and demand our concern and

[24:02] attention again today.

[24:04] But against the shock of that change and

[24:06] whirl, Bruce Morton found the timeless

[24:08] ritual in the drama of men at arms, a

[24:11] world of waiting and tears and

[24:13] imperishable pride. Mike and Janice

[24:15] Felure have one Marine son in Grenada

[24:18] and another, Terry, in Beirut. At first,

[24:20] they thought that Terry had died. Seeing

[24:23] the pictures, I knew there would be no

[24:25] hope for my son.

[24:27] But Terry lived, badly burned in a

[24:29] Beirut hospital. Where are you from?

[24:33] Pennsylvania. His father wants him back

[24:35] in Pennsylvania. Why don't they take him

[24:38] to the ship

[24:40] and get him out of there?

[24:41] Not because he's my son, the rest of

[24:43] them. They've been through one ordeal,

[24:46] why another?

[24:49] Some did get out to military hospitals

[24:51] like this one in West Germany. Marine

[24:53] Corps Commandant Paul Kelly stopped by

[24:55] on his way to Beirut, gave some of the

[24:57] wounded Purple Hearts and talked about

[24:59] one Marine who couldn't talk but wrote

[25:00] his general a message.

[25:02] And I show it to you and that's in his

[25:04] handwriting.

[25:05] And that says "Semper Fi".

[25:09] And what that means to a Marine is

[25:11] always faithful.

[25:15] And these wounded Marines came back to a

[25:17] burn unit in San Antonio. Their names

[25:19] were not released. A lot of names are

[25:21] not yet known. A lot of families don't

[25:23] know whether their Marines are alive or

[25:24] dead. In Charlotte, North Carolina, good

[25:27] news for Joanne Carr who recognized her

[25:29] brother alive from television pictures.

[25:31] That's him. That's him.

[25:34] I must be cool.

[25:35] But grief is spreading. John and Betty

[25:38] Price of Anniston, Alabama learned their

[25:40] son James was dead. That's my feeling

[25:44] that I feel like that those Marines are

[25:47] over there

[25:48] and being sacrificed.

[25:51] I believe they're dying in vain.

[25:53] Mary Ann Helms in White, Nebraska had

[25:55] her son Mark's last letter less than an

[25:57] hour before she learned that he was

[25:59] dead.

[26:03] It's hard to believe that he is actually

[26:06] gone. He's not writing any more letters,

[26:09] not putting a little joke in there.

[26:12] He's not

[26:13] coming home.

[26:15] And at First Colonial High School in

[26:17] Virginia Beach, Virginia, school

[26:19] nicknamed Patriots, young people mourned

[26:21] the death of Jeff Bruce Owen, class of

[26:24] '82.

[26:25] Jeff was a good

[26:26] patriot. The young faces stood for a

[26:29] moment of silence to remember a young

[26:31] man now dead, far from home.

[26:38] Amen.

[26:41] There are flags at half-staff all over

[26:43] the United States today.

[26:45] Bruce Morton, CBS News, New York.

[26:51] And that's the CBS Evening News for this

[26:52] Tuesday. Until our special report

[26:54] tonight at 11:30 Eastern time, Dan

[26:56] Rather reporting from New York. Thank

[26:58] you for joining us.

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[28:52] >> This is CBS.

[28:55] There's a decision on how to handle

[28:57] Metro's emission inspection program.

[28:59] Voters in Franklin are choosing between

[29:01] two candidates for mayor. And ham radio

[29:04] operators listen to the invasion of

[29:05] Grenada. Details on these stories and a

[29:08] lot more coming up next on Eyewitness

[29:10] News.