CBS Evening News - 1999-11-19
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[0:00] Only at Arby's.
[0:02] The Ramsey interview, plus the woman
[0:05] formerly known as Sable on ET.
[0:08] Anti-American protests and riots break
[0:11] out in Greece today as President Clinton
[0:13] arrives there from Turkey under tight
[0:16] security. Solving the EgyptAir crash
[0:19] mystery, investigators are now trying to
[0:21] break the language and political
[0:23] barriers. And countdown to 2000, the
[0:26] experimental new drugs that could keep
[0:29] cancer in check in the 21st century.
[0:34] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:38] With Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:41] headquarters in New York.
[0:44] Good evening. President Clinton says he
[0:45] welcomes dissent and passionate debate
[0:48] in the world's oldest democracy. This
[0:51] was said as the president and his family
[0:53] went under heavy guard tonight in Athens
[0:55] on a brief visit to Greece that was
[0:57] delayed and shortened because of
[0:59] security worries. Earlier, anti-American
[1:02] demonstrators battled with police as the
[1:04] Clintons arrived. CBS News chief White
[1:06] House correspondent John Roberts is
[1:08] traveling with the first family.
[1:11] Anarchy ruled the streets tonight in the
[1:13] city where democracy was born.
[1:17] 10,000 protesters, fueled by decades of
[1:20] anti-American sentiment, had tried to
[1:22] march to the US Embassy when they were
[1:24] stopped by riot police under orders not
[1:26] to let them near. A group of anarchists
[1:29] broke ranks and trashed shops in a
[1:31] fashionable Athens neighborhood.
[1:34] The violence erupted just as President
[1:36] Clinton touched down at Athens Airport.
[1:39] To a far more receptive crowd of invited
[1:41] guests, he said he was here as a friend
[1:44] of Greece.
[1:44] And I look f