CBS Evening News - 1998-10-12
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[0:00] finger is on the trigger, but they may
[0:01] not pull it. An aerial armada is set to
[0:04] strike against Serbia, but their late
[0:06] reports of 11thhour progress toward a
[0:09] deal on Kosovo. Two Wyoming men will be
[0:12] charged with murder in the savage and
[0:14] now fatal beating of a gay college
[0:16] student. It's an allout price war as
[0:19] tobacco companies try to sign up the
[0:21] next generation of smokers. And Eye on
[0:24] America, Asia's financial flu infects
[0:27] apple orchards here in the USA.
[0:32] This is the CBS Evening
[0:35] News with Dan Rather reporting from CBS
[0:38] News headquarters in New York. Good
[0:41] evening. The crisis in the Balkans is
[0:43] coming down to the crunch tonight. The
[0:45] US and its NATO allies are cocked and
[0:47] ready with cruise missile strikes aimed
[0:49] at Serbian forces. At the same time,
[0:52] late reports indicate there is progress
[0:54] toward a possible diplomatic solution.
[0:57] Serbia's dictator and ethnic cleansing
[0:59] specialist supposedly has made key
[1:02] concessions toward his ceasefire and
[1:04] peace talks on Kosovo. CBS News National
[1:07] Security Correspondent David Martin
[1:08] begins our report from the
[1:10] Pentagon. Special envoy Richard
[1:12] Hullbrook arrived at NATO headquarters
[1:14] in Belgium tonight to brief the alliance
[1:16] on what US officials are calling key
[1:19] concessions made by Sir President
[1:21] Mallosvich, which if he keeps his word
[1:24] would head off air strikes. I came to
[1:26] Brussels for a simple reason. The
[1:28] council is meeting to discuss what it
[1:31] does next in a situation of extreme
[1:34] seriousness. One might say an emergency.
[1:38] US officials say Mallosvich has agreed
[1:40] to withdraw his