CBS Evening News - 1999-12-20
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[0:04] Lost Brock Hudson interview. Plus
[0:05] Matthew Perry on 18.
[0:09] On guard against terror in 2000. Border
[0:13] security is tightened as the FBI tries
[0:15] to trace a mystery man with a carload of
[0:18] explosives. A state court's big step
[0:21] toward giving gay couples the same
[0:23] rights as married heterosexuals.
[0:26] A preh holiday rush to get disaster aid
[0:29] to Venezuela's flood and mud survivors
[0:32] before it's too late. And a century of
[0:35] liberation. Women at the millennium on
[0:38] the countdown to 2000.
[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:48] Rather.
[0:50] >> Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm
[0:52] John Roberts. The US Customs Service is
[0:54] putting 300 extra agents on duty at
[0:57] points of entry to the United States and
[1:00] putting them on high alert for terror in
[1:03] 2000. An Algerian from Canada is in
[1:05] custody near Seattle and the authorities
[1:08] say he may be connected to a terrorist
[1:10] ring. He was arrested last week at the
[1:12] border with the makings of a powerful
[1:14] bomb hidden in his car. CBS News
[1:17] correspondent Jim Stewart begins our
[1:19] coverage.
[1:21] 32-year-old Ahmad Rasam of Algeria
[1:24] wouldn't say in court why he was headed
[1:26] from Canada to the United States with a
[1:28] carload of explosives. In fact, say
[1:30] investigators he's not saying anything
[1:32] at all and appears to have been coached
[1:34] on his legal rights under US law.
[1:37] Meanwhile, federal agents still assume
[1:39] that Rousam was either with someone or
[1:41] in route to meet someone when he was
[1:43] stopped at this Washington fairy landing
[1:45] last week and have intensified their
[1:47] search for accompllices. Today, the US
[1:49] customs agents who first s