CBS Evening News - 1991-05-22
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[0:02] more evidence of US support for Saddam
[0:05] Hussein before the war and a tax cut for
[0:08] middle-income Americans maybe.
[0:13] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:16] reporting. Good evening. Grief and anger
[0:18] swept across India today in the wake of
[0:20] the assassination of former Prime
[0:22] Minister Rajie Gandhi. Elections are now
[0:25] off until next month. Gandhi's widow, an
[0:27] Italian, will run as a candidate. The
[0:29] Indian government calls the whole crisis
[0:31] a serious threat to democracy. Bill
[0:34] Whitaker is in New Delhi.
[0:37] >> The body of Rajiv Gandhi was flown back
[0:39] to the capital of New Delhi today,
[0:41] accompanied by his wife and daughter.
[0:43] The assassination of Gandhi in the midst
[0:45] of a divisive election campaign has
[0:47] thrown this nation and his dominant
[0:49] Congress party into turmoil. To fill the
[0:52] power vacuum, Congress party officials
[0:55] unanimously chose Gandhi's Italian-born
[0:57] wife, Sonia, to lead the party, turning
[1:00] once again to the powerful Gandhi name,
[1:02] which has dominated political life here
[1:04] since independence 45 years ago. Sonia
[1:07] Gandhi, a political novice, so far has
[1:10] not agreed to succeed her husband.
[1:12] Gandhi's body was taken to the family
[1:14] home to lie in state until the funeral
[1:16] Friday. A crowd of mourners gathered
[1:19] outside the compound walls,
[1:21] griefstricken by the loss of the popular
[1:23] leader. As the crowd grew larger, some
[1:26] clamored to scale the walls.
[1:29] Mourning turned to melee as police used
[1:31] clubs and tear gas to force people back.
[1:34] Friends say Gandhi was a victim of his
[1:36] political drive to get close to the
[1:38] people. Once describe