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Today In History June 3, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre covered by CBS News · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: In China today, a government sponsored rally through thousands of
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Speaker 1: anti student protesters, including some dressed as Uncle Sam. The
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Speaker 1: government reportedly handed out money to attract some of the crowd.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, soldiers appeared in the streets around Tianeman Square,
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Speaker 1: where thousands of students are still camped out. So far,
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Speaker 1: the soldiers have made no moves to remove the demonstrators.
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Speaker 2: The occupation of Beijing's Tianaman Square is over. The student
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Speaker 2: protests that gripped the world crushed in a bloody nighttime
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Speaker 2: army assault.
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Speaker 3: This is the CBS Evening News.
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Speaker 2: Bob Schieffer Report and Good Evening. It is now Sunday
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Speaker 2: morning in Beijing, and Chinese army troops have retaken Tianaman Square,
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Speaker 2: where thousands of demonstrators have been camped for the last
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Speaker 2: three weeks. The army moved in with a vengeance, at
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Speaker 2: some points firing into the crowd before they actually got
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Speaker 2: to the square. By some counts, more than one hundred
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Speaker 2: people are dead to hundreds more are injured. Two of
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Speaker 2: our CBS News team correspondent Richard Roth and camermon Derrek
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Speaker 2: Williams were caught in the onslaught. We believe they are
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Speaker 2: all right, but they have been taken into custody. Sound
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Speaker 2: men Dexter Leone and assistant Robert Loum managed to escape.
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Speaker 2: For the latest. Now we're going to go to correspondent
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Speaker 2: John Shayan in Beijing.
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Speaker 4: John, as we're last scene being taken at gunpoint by
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Speaker 4: soldiers into the Great Hall of the People. Since then,
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Speaker 4: we have been unable to get any word of what's
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Speaker 4: going on with them. There's still a good deal of
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Speaker 4: shooting going on in the city along some of the streets.
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Speaker 4: The armored personnel carriers and some light tanks are breaking
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Speaker 4: down barricades, and soldiers atop the armored vehicles are shooting
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Speaker 4: with rifles at people who throw stones at the soldiers.
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Speaker 4: The military advances took place over a period of twenty
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Speaker 4: four hours. First, unarmed troops were sent into the city.
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Speaker 4: They were surrounded by tens of thousands of Beijing citizens.
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Speaker 4: They were stopped in their tracks, and eventually they went
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Speaker 4: back the way they came. The soldiers then returned, not
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Speaker 4: the same units, but others in buses, and they carried
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Speaker 4: supply vehicles. In those vehicles were assault rifles packed in
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Speaker 4: duffel bags. Those were the first weapons that had been seen.
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Speaker 4: Once again, those soldiers were immobilized by the people, huge
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Speaker 4: crowds in the streets. It looked like people power was
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Speaker 4: once again victorious over the People's Liberation Army. In some cases,
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Speaker 4: the students and the soldiers were singing together, they were laughing,
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Speaker 4: they were talking. The People's Liberation Army belongs to the people,
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Speaker 4: and that is the argument that it was making sense
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Speaker 4: to the army. But the army wasn't finished. As the
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Speaker 4: seemingly victorious students were collecting military souvenirs, more troops were
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Speaker 4: already on the move. Of the two hundred thousand estimated
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Speaker 4: troops ringing the city. Forces of thousands began to move
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Speaker 4: into the city from three directions. And these were not
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Speaker 4: the unarmed troops of yesterday. These were battle ready combat troops.
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Speaker 4: They moved ahead, sometimes firing as they went. There were
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Speaker 4: ugly scenes of rock throwing, hand to hand combat in
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Speaker 4: the streets. Some of those troops were stopped and are
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Speaker 4: still surrounded by people in the streets. But the battle
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Speaker 4: is essentially lost because a huge strikeforce from the west,
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Speaker 4: consisting of five hundred trucks full of troops and estimated
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Speaker 4: eight thousand soldiers moved into the city. Tiennan Men's Square
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Speaker 4: had already been secured by earlier troops, and these were
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Speaker 4: the reinforcements to make sure that the army keeps the
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Speaker 4: square bob through the night. There was so much shooting,
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Speaker 4: so many people wounded, so many people dead. The hospitals
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Speaker 4: are overflowing with casualties. We've been able to get some
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Speaker 4: hard information on numbers of casualties. Eight hospitals that would
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Speaker 4: give information add up to three hundred twenty five wounded,
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Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty dead. At least four other hospitals
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Speaker 4: say they cannot total the figures now, they're too busy
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Speaker 4: or they refuse to say on the telephone. John Shayan,
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Speaker 4: CBS News Beijing.
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Speaker 2: Thank you John. During the night, Beijing time, before he
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Speaker 2: was taken into custody, correspondent Richard Roth was in Tianamen
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Speaker 2: Square and here's how he was describing the scene. As
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Speaker 2: Chinese troops moved closer and closer to the square.
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Speaker 5: Now people are running away from the gunfire from the
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Speaker 5: advancing troops. Assuming they are they are advancing, I guess
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Speaker 5: they are the students running behind them, throwing rocks, picking
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Speaker 5: up debris from the concrete on the square and hurling
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Speaker 5: it at the soldiers. But again the soldiers have not
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Speaker 5: yet broken ranks, so all they fired tear gas, Well,
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Speaker 5: no tear gas. That from where we are one hundred
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Speaker 5: yards away or so, you can certainly smell the smell
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Speaker 5: of cordite from the gunfire. But unlike what we've seen
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Speaker 5: up to now, these are not This is not friendly harassment.
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Speaker 5: These are not demonstrators that can can surround, that can
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Speaker 5: surround the troops and stop them. The troops are all armed,
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Speaker 5: they look to be quite threatening, and the students are
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Speaker 5: too dispersed here to be able to surround them and
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Speaker 5: stop them.
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Speaker 2: The situation continued to grow more serious, and later Roth
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Speaker 2: filed list reports.
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Speaker 5: Okay, we've got to get out of here. They're just
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Speaker 5: here after Derek. Now they're ripping away his camera. They're
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Speaker 5: ripping away his camera, and they're coming for us. We're
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Speaker 5: trying to move move back and move away. I'll go,
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Speaker 5: I'll go, I'll go.
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Speaker 2: That was our last report from Richard. Just a while ago,
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Speaker 2: we learned that he and cameraman Derek Williams had been
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Speaker 2: taken into custody. We do not believe that they were hurt.
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Speaker 2: Their two companions did manage to hide out for a
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Speaker 2: moment at the square, later made their way back to
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Speaker 2: the CBS News headquarters.
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Speaker 6: In Beijing.
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Speaker 3: The symbol of a people's revolution against old line communism
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Speaker 3: falls to the ground. This is the CBS Evening News
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Speaker 3: day and rather reporting good evening. It is morning now Monday,
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Speaker 3: in Beijing, a city under siege by China's own liberation Army.
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Speaker 3: Gunfire is still being heard in the streets of Beijing,
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Speaker 3: but in many places a general eerie and easy quiet prevails.
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Speaker 3: The government has finally officially admitted that what it calls
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Speaker 3: some civilians died in last night's massacres. Others say thousands died.
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Speaker 3: Our own CBS new survey of hospitals indicate that the
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Speaker 3: death toll is at least two hundred. Chinese police today
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Speaker 3: freed to CBS newsmen who had been captured and roughed
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Speaker 3: up a bit by the military correspondent Richard Roth and
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Speaker 3: cameraman Derrick Williams. Our CBS News resident China correspondent John
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Speaker 3: Chayan has the latest to night from Beijing.
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Speaker 4: Dan the communist leaders lied to their soldiers, telling them
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Speaker 4: there was an armed insurrection attempting to overthrow the government. Now,
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Speaker 4: after the bloodbath, they're trying to hide the terrible result.
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Speaker 4: Today Beijing is a city enraged. The people call their
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Speaker 4: army fascist and say that the soldiers behaved worse than Nazis.
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Speaker 4: Unarmed civilians have been expressing their anger by setting fire
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Speaker 4: to an a military vehicle abandoned or capturing. The government
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Speaker 4: acknowledges that three soldiers die. Soldiers, weary of the unprecedented
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Speaker 4: assault on their own people rest in the streets, often
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Speaker 4: surrounded by silent, accusing crowds. The earlier time of debating
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Speaker 4: and bantering with the troops is over for the people,
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Speaker 4: who for two weeks successfully persuaded convoys of soldiers that
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Speaker 4: the pro democracy students were expressing all the people's distaste
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Speaker 4: at dictatorship and official corruption. Tanks and armoured personnel carriers
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Speaker 4: have been patrolling the streets, often firing bursts of bullets
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Speaker 4: to frighten and intimidate. Still, thousands refused to cower in
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Speaker 4: their homes. Dan Most of the survivors of Tienanmen Square
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Speaker 4: have withdrawn to the Beijing campuses in the northern part
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Speaker 4: of the city. They took a few captured weapons with them,
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Speaker 4: and some of the students have been making molotov cocktails.
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Speaker 4: They're convinced that the army plans to attack again. New
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Speaker 4: armor and infantry units have moved into the city in
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Speaker 4: the last couple of hours, but so far not toward
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Speaker 4: the schools.
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Speaker 3: Dan John Shayan, thanks. We're grateful to report that correspondent
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Speaker 3: Richard Roth and cameraman Derek Williams not only are free
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Speaker 3: now but are all right, thanks in part to the
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Speaker 3: efforts of US Secretary of State James Baker and the
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Speaker 3: State Department, and of the Chinese ambassador in Washington. Roth
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Speaker 3: suffered a cut into black eye, Otherwise both men were unharmed.
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Speaker 3: They spent most of Sunday in the custody of Chinese police,
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Speaker 3: having been turned over to the police by the military
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Speaker 3: troops seized both men. As they reported live from Tienaman
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Speaker 3: Squared during the height of the army attack. Roth reports
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Speaker 3: now how that attack gained momentum, how it looked, and
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Speaker 3: how it ended.
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Speaker 7: It's midnight. It's Sunday in Beijing, and at the center
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Speaker 7: of the encampment of pro democracy demonstrators, the loud speaker
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Speaker 7: the Student's Control is announcing the soldiers are coming. We're
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Speaker 7: waiting for them. They won't be able to stop our movement.
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Speaker 7: Government announcers are broadcasting two hundred yards away. The army
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Speaker 7: is prepared to take the square by whatever means necessary.
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Speaker 8: Leave now.
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Speaker 7: In fact, the battle has already been joined, but it
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Speaker 7: reaches here only in the sound of distant gunfire and
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Speaker 7: the spread of anxious rumor. The battle is under way,
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Speaker 7: but it's being fought in the broad boulevards beyond Tienanmen Square,
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Speaker 7: where civilians are confronting the troops advancing on this position
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Speaker 7: and falling under heavy gunfire from the People's Army four
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Speaker 7: a m. In the first signs here of the heat
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Speaker 7: of that battle. Troops now enter Tennonan Square from the south,
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Speaker 7: where there's no longer much resistance, and some of them
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Speaker 7: have been injured getting here. Their numbers are in the thousands. Now,
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Speaker 7: lights in the square are turned off. Students at bonfires
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Speaker 7: show a crowd of several thousand demonstrators, and as the
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Speaker 7: troops file into positions circling the square, the students announce
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Speaker 7: they are giving up. From a vantage point at a
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Speaker 7: corner of the square, you can see demonstrators leaving a
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Speaker 7: column of them carrying flags, walking once around the monument
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Speaker 7: in the center of the square, and walking out, but
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Speaker 7: you can't see it for long. Soldiers have spotted CBS
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Speaker 7: News cameraman Dereck Williams and myself and are angrily dragging
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Speaker 7: us away, and a moment later it begins powerful bursts
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Speaker 7: of automatic weapons, raging gunfire for a minute and a
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Speaker 7: half that lasts as long as a nightmare, and we
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Speaker 7: see no more, carried off to an army garrison for detention,
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Speaker 7: lasting nineteen hours. Richard Roth's CBS News Beijing.
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Speaker 3: About two hundred thousand protesters condemned the Beijing bloodshed today
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Speaker 3: in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is the British colony which
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Speaker 3: the British plan to turn over to mainland Chinese rule.
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Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety seven, sympathizers with the pro freedom protesters
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Speaker 3: block streets in Shanghai, China's own largest city. Chinese students
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Speaker 3: and their supporters vetted their anger in at least twenty
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Speaker 3: cities here in the United States, Correspondent David Kolhane as.
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Speaker 9: That in Washington, Chinese students and Chinese Americans asked motorists
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Speaker 9: to honk for a free China. Honk if you love democracy.
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Speaker 9: Hundreds responded with a blare of angry sound. Then the
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Speaker 9: thousands of demonstrators marched to the Chinese embassy to deliver
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Speaker 9: flowers of mourning for the dead. The door opened briefly
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Speaker 9: and then slammed shut. The people repeated their simple message,
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Speaker 9: China Freedom. In New York again, thousands marching, saying today
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Speaker 9: all Americans are Chinese. In their grief, the students asked
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Speaker 9: for help to keep their movement going, and everywhere they
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Speaker 9: expressed their fury watching from a distance the death in
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Speaker 9: their own country. People, you are very, very angry.
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Speaker 10: This is a very charity.
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Speaker 11: Heaven in China, the targity being the Chinese, the modern
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Speaker 11: history I feel about.
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Speaker 9: And in Los Angeles and San Francisco today, indeed in
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Speaker 9: every major city in America, there were tears, tears for
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Speaker 9: fellow students, for family members killed or wounded, tears of
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Speaker 9: worry waiting for news. Around the country. Students made telephone
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Speaker 9: contact with Beijing and then played the recorded messages for others.
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Speaker 9: The news was terrible.
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Speaker 11: What they want is only at democracy and freedom, but
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Speaker 11: the government used troops and killed them.
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Speaker 4: This is really very bad.
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Speaker 9: And wherever the Chinese students were today, they were trying
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Speaker 9: to come to grips with the question of whether they
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Speaker 9: could go home.
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Speaker 5: Want to go back to.
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Speaker 1: Fight the killer governments, but my parents was keep saying,
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Speaker 1: don't come back, you will.
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Speaker 5: Be in trouble.
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Speaker 9: In Houston, students relieved their feelings with street theater reenacting
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Speaker 9: the bloody scenes of Beijing, and they've played the Chinese
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Speaker 9: national anthem and they whacked David Calhan's CBS News New York.
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Speaker 3: President Bush has notched up his response to the killings
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Speaker 3: in China. He is now openly critical, but remains cautious.
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Speaker 3: His age say that he is anxious to preserve good
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Speaker 3: US relations with the president Chinese government and whatever, if anything,
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Speaker 3: that may follow. But as White House correspondent White Andrews' reports,
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Speaker 3: the President is under increasing pressure to dish out some
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Speaker 3: kind of retaliation.
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Speaker 6: President Bush were now wants the US reaction to the
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Speaker 6: Chinese carnage limited to words. As he left church today
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Speaker 6: in kenne Bonport, the President stood by yesterday's White House
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Speaker 6: statement deploring the violence and threatening a stall in the
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Speaker 6: US Chinese relationship.
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Speaker 4: We already had a statement unmatch i hope you read it, but.
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Speaker 6: Some members of Congress have read the President's statement and
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Speaker 6: don't think it's strong enough.
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Speaker 12: It would be politically unacceptable and morally unthinkable, leslie, for
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Speaker 12: us to continue selling arms to a country which is
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Speaker 12: engaged in the wanton slaughter of its own people.
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Speaker 6: It is a potential political firestorm for the president and
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Speaker 6: it begins in the morning.
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Speaker 10: And I'm going to start tomorrow morning in the Senate
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Speaker 10: to line up bipartisan support to cut off all of
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Speaker 10: that sort of thing. It's folly, and we need to
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Speaker 10: stand with these young people who are trying to achieve freedom.
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Speaker 6: Supporters of the president argue that events in China are
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Speaker 6: still so uncertain.
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Speaker 7: Now is not the.
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Speaker 6: Time to lash out at the Chinese military.
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Speaker 13: Now we don't know who responded. We may have friends
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Speaker 13: in the military in China.
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Speaker 11: In fact, the military in China may become the government
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Speaker 11: that before too long.
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Speaker 6: The controversy means the President returned late today to a
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Speaker 6: Washington different from the one he expected. Rather than bask
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Speaker 6: in the praise of how well he handled Europe last week,
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Speaker 6: he now faces a lively congressional debate over his China policy.
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Speaker 6: Int Wyatt Andrew's CBS News Kennebunkport, Maine.
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Speaker 3: Scenes of destruction and defiance in the streets of Beijing
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Speaker 3: as enraged Chinese take on an army divided against itself.
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Speaker 3: This is the CBS Evening Newsed and Rather reporting the
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Speaker 3: night from Los Angeles.
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Speaker 4: Good Evening.
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Speaker 3: A huge force of soldiers and tanks took up positions
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Speaker 3: in Beijing. Today, the specter of an all out civil
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Speaker 3: war hovered over the Chinese capital. More civilians died as
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Speaker 3: tanks fired at unarmed civilians in the streets. Some people
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Speaker 3: tried to fight tanks with their hands, but the occupying
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Speaker 3: army in the capitol now seems to be preparing for
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Speaker 3: a possible assault by other elements of the military, perhaps
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Speaker 3: an attempt at a military coup. The Communist Party hardliners
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Speaker 3: who dominate the government of China have had nothing to say.
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Speaker 3: None has appeared in public for several days. John Chen
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Speaker 3: begins our coverage from Beijing.
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Speaker 4: Over the last several hours, there has been the continual
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Speaker 4: sound of gunfire here as Beijing and possibly the country,
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Speaker 4: sink deeper into chaos. China's twenty seventh Army holds Tianan
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Speaker 4: Men's Square with a force of one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 4: tanks plus infantry and other armor. It was principally the
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Speaker 4: twenty seventh that slaughtered unarmed, peaceful protesters, but there are
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Speaker 4: clear signs that some elements in China's army are outraged
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Speaker 4: by the atrocity. The twenty seventh has moved to defensive positions,
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Speaker 4: clearly expecting an assault by other troops, not necessarily in
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Speaker 4: hopes of defeating the superior arms of the killers of
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Speaker 4: tianan Men, perhaps only to delay or prevent an attack
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Speaker 4: on the defenseless tens of thousands of students barricaded in
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Speaker 4: their campuses. The government announced that the tianan Men massacre
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Speaker 4: was only the initial victory. The punishment of the pro
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Speaker 4: democracy movement is to continue as.
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Speaker 11: A disasta, as a tragedis.
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Speaker 4: Some of the hundreds of American students in Beijing meantime
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Speaker 4: began packing up today. Maratithi of Minneapolis said she is
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Speaker 4: leaving but hopes to return. Columns of tanks occasionally rove
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Speaker 4: out of the city center, often firing wildly at civilians.
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Speaker 4: Only the lucky survived.
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Speaker 7: The bullets go all the way through your body.
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Speaker 11: Yes, we're body, and the God from a US.
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Speaker 4: Despite the continuing killing, civilians resist with sticks and stones
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Speaker 4: and raw courage and rage. Some soldiers have been murdered,
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Speaker 4: equipment destroyed, and there are now credible reports of soldiers
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Speaker 4: who have set their own vehicles on fire and withdrawn
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Speaker 4: in disgust at making war on their own people. Actually
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Speaker 4: defeating the powerful army positioned around the city center and
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Speaker 4: the Communist Party headquarters would require a concerted effort by
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Speaker 4: armies from several provinces. Even then, there is no guarantee
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Speaker 4: it would succeed. Dan. The appalling crackdown on the students
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Speaker 4: has produced an even bigger and more widespread rebellion and
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Speaker 4: has brought China to the brink of civil war.
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Speaker 3: Dan check Chayan in Beijing thanks. No one knows how
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Speaker 3: many people have died in the crackdown. We may never know.
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Speaker 3: Our own CBS News review of hospital figures indicates that
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Speaker 3: at least three hundred died. The figure may be as
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Speaker 3: high as three thousand or more. Many were civilians who
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Speaker 3: went into the street unarmed to challenge the military and
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Speaker 3: remote down by machine gun fire or run over by tanks.
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Speaker 3: But amazingly people were still defying the army today Richard
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Speaker 3: Roth has one story.
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Speaker 8: It was noontime today in the center of Beijing when
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Speaker 8: a man walked to the middle of the Avenue of
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Speaker 8: Eternal Peace, which, as it happened, was already occupied. He
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Speaker 8: walked to the middle and stood there. The man was alone.
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Speaker 8: The tank was not. It wasn't just a single tank
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Speaker 8: he stopped. There were eighteen tanks and armored carriers in
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Speaker 8: this convoy, and while he talked to the crew and
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Speaker 8: ignored the gunfire, he stopped all of them. One man alone,
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Speaker 8: of course, can't stop an army except for a moment.
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Speaker 8: That's exactly what happened here. For three minutes, in the
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Speaker 8: middle of the day, an army was stopped by a
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Speaker 8: man who stood still, a man who'd made up his mind.
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Speaker 8: It seems though, why, we just don't know. But when
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Speaker 8: bystanders rushed in to save this stubborn soul, it wasn't
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Speaker 8: easily done. He was pushed away at last, faceless in
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Speaker 8: the crowd, safe, we think, But in a city verging
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Speaker 8: on calamity, what moves a man to just stand still?
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Speaker 8: Is it courage or outrage or madness? We can't tell
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Speaker 8: what was on his mind, and we can't forget what
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Speaker 8: he did. Richard Roth's CBS News Beijing.
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Speaker 3: President Bush today issued his toughest statement on China so far,
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Speaker 3: saying its leaders were and I quote now brutally suppressing
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Speaker 3: a peaceful movement. President Bush ordered limited sanctions but says
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Speaker 3: he does not want to break relations. Wyatt Andrews has
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Speaker 3: that part of the story.
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Speaker 6: Abandoning his early weight and see approach. The President today
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Speaker 6: sent a get tough message to the Chinese military elements.
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Speaker 6: He suspended all US military sales to China, declaring the
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Speaker 6: United States cannot do business.
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Speaker 14: As usual, and I think it's important that the army
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Speaker 14: know that we want to see restraint, and this is
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Speaker 14: the best way to signal that.
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Speaker 6: The order puts in limbo six hundred and eighty six
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Speaker 6: million dollars in military sales to China, effectively halting American
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Speaker 6: assistance to the Chinese F eight fighter program and stopping
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Speaker 6: USA to two ammunition factories. Top level military visits are
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Speaker 6: also suspended. In addition, mister Bush offered Red crosshelp for
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Speaker 6: those injured in the violence, ordered a review of US
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Speaker 6: relations with China, and said the United States would sympathetically
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Speaker 6: view requests from Chinese students who want to extend their
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Speaker 6: visits in the United States. Significantly, the President did not
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Speaker 6: suspend any other trade with China or cut off diplomatic
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Speaker 6: relations with Beijing.
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Speaker 14: This would be a bad time for the United States
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Speaker 14: to withdraw and pull back and leave them to the
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Speaker 14: devices of a leadership that might decide to crack down further.
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Speaker 6: A group of four Chinese students, hastily invited to the
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Speaker 6: White House kailed the president's new plan, a.
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Speaker 11: Measured response I think may help the things in China
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Speaker 11: moved toward a good direction.
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Speaker 6: Despite earlier complaints that the President moved too slowly, this
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Speaker 6: latest plan of action won immediate support.
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Speaker 3: I think the action is taken to prudent to agree.
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Speaker 11: I think the United States ambassadors should remain Now.
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Speaker 3: We have to condemn what has been happening, but we
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Speaker 3: have to do it in such a way that we
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Speaker 3: do not foreclose the possibility the closer relationship again.
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Speaker 6: Yet, mister Bush will still face pressure to do even more.
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Speaker 10: I am going to see and legislation to suspend trade, investment,
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Speaker 10: financial and other task to this brutal communist government.
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Speaker 6: That the Chinese military appears divided against itself is not
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Speaker 6: seen as a band sign Here at the White House.
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Speaker 6: President Bush, who is reading the tea leaves and watching
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Speaker 6: television just like everyone else, says a splintered military proves
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Speaker 6: a high level of support for the students and that
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Speaker 6: the idea of democracy has taken root in China for good.
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Speaker 6: Wyatt Andrews CBS News, the White House.
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Speaker 3: The governments of Cuba and Vietnam back the Chinese government's
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Speaker 3: crackdown and massacre. Today, the rest of the world reacted
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Speaker 3: with outrage and grief.
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Speaker 13: Bruce Morton reports the Chinese government ordered the Chinese army
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Speaker 13: to kill Chinese civilians. The troops fired, people died, Cameras
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Speaker 13: were at The whole world was watching today all over
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Speaker 13: the world world, people protested and raged and cried. In
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Speaker 13: Bond they burned an army uniform. This woman works for
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Speaker 13: the Chinese embassy in Bon, but she was one who
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Speaker 13: cried massacre. The banners read. The army used force. The
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Speaker 13: students used what they had, rocks, sometimes sometimes saws. In Moscow, Moscow,
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Speaker 13: a quiet protest. They sang too in English. One line
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Speaker 13: goes a brave New worlds in birth, not today. In Beijing,
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Speaker 13: they cried for the dead in Roanoke, Virginia, a man
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Speaker 13: cried out for a missing brother. One of the largest
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Speaker 13: protests was in Hong Kong, which is to become part
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Speaker 13: of China, this new China. In nineteen ninety seven, truck
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Speaker 13: drivers sat down refused to cross the Hong Kong China border.
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Speaker 13: In Beijing, soldiers died too.
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Speaker 7: I will go back and fight with.
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Speaker 13: Some Chinese students like this when at UCLA wanted to
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Speaker 13: go home and fight others marched here.
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Speaker 5: We do not recognize anymore the government of China anymore.
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Speaker 13: In Beijing, rubble protest in Washington, d C marchers and
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Speaker 13: a defaced flag and protest.
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Speaker 11: People believe that at least of their human being at
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Speaker 11: the beginning, and now people find out that they're no
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Speaker 11: longer human being.
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Speaker 13: Outside the United Nations, which cannot intervene in China's internal killings.
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Speaker 13: Chants and marchers here and everywhere, tears and anger, grief
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Speaker 13: and rage all mingled. The whole world was watching. It
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Speaker 13: will never see China quite the same way again. Bruce Morton,
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Speaker 13: CBS News, New York