CBS Evening News - 1993-01-01
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[0:05] The children meet the president. Mr.
[0:07] Bush pledges not to let them down. But
[0:09] what happens after he and his soldiers
[0:11] head home? Marine training is tough, but
[0:14] racism makes it worse. New evidence that
[0:17] military minorities are being harassed.
[0:20] And a white out in the West. More snow
[0:22] than they've seen in years.
[0:26] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:33] Good evening. I'm Harry Smith sitting in
[0:35] tonight for Dan Rather. President Bush
[0:37] wound up his visit to Somalia today,
[0:39] congratulating his troops for the job
[0:41] they've done and trying to reassure them
[0:43] that they will be going home sometime.
[0:47] Correspondent Bill Lagatuda has
[0:48] tonight's report on the rescue in
[0:51] Somalia.
[0:52] >> President Bush flew into Bidoa, the
[0:55] place they used to call the city of
[0:56] death. And the first things he saw were
[0:59] the instruments of killing his men took
[1:01] away from the bandits.
[1:02] >> Where Mr. President
[1:04] >> the Marines he stepped in and out of
[1:06] Foxhole's greeting today have cleaned up
[1:08] this part of Somalia and Mr. Bush said
[1:11] he wanted to thank them. It was a big
[1:13] deal that the president had come and not
[1:15] just for the troops. The president's
[1:18] next stop is here, the Bidoa orphanage
[1:20] with 800 children. All they've been told
[1:23] is that an important man from America is
[1:26] coming.
[1:31] All the children knew was this is the
[1:33] man whose soldiers guard the food. For
[1:35] him, a hero's welcome. Mr. Bush, who
[1:38] hasn't had a reception like this since
[1:40] well before November, might have wished
[1:42] it would last forever.
[1:44] >> It is a wonderful, wonderful mission of
[1:47] mercy, and I'm so proud that ou