CBS Evening News - 1992-04-07 (Western) (Campaign '92)

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[0:01] With election returns and a campaign

[0:03] attitude special report from CBS News.

[0:05] Headline of the hour, a good night for

[0:07] Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and for

[0:09] President George Bush in the

[0:10] presidential primaries. The polls are

[0:12] now closed in all four of tonight's

[0:15] presidential primary states, including

[0:17] the contest that has the largest number

[0:19] of delegates in New York. Let's look

[0:20] them over. Starting with the Democrats.

[0:23] in New York. Uh, Governor Bill Clinton

[0:25] has won the New York primary and it's a

[0:28] it's a rather comfortable win for

[0:30] Clinton, although not overwhelming.

[0:32] Brown and Sonis are in a very close race

[0:34] for second place in New York. In Kansas,

[0:36] Clinton an easy winner in the Kansas

[0:38] Democratic primary in Wisconsin. Close

[0:41] between Clinton and Brown for first

[0:43] place. We'll have more on that later.

[0:44] Songus third. Among the Republicans,

[0:47] President Bush has scored in Wisconsin,

[0:49] Kansas, Minnesota, and New York, where

[0:51] he was basically unopposed. Now, we'll

[0:53] be back with a special half hour wrap-up

[0:55] right after your late local years. I'm

[0:56] Dan Rap.

[1:07] This is a special western edition of the

[1:09] CBS Evening News. Dan Rather reporting

[1:11] live from CBS News headquarters in New

[1:13] York. Good evening. Welcome back. As

[1:16] perhaps you just heard, Arkansas

[1:18] Governor Bill Clinton wins the big

[1:20] important New York Democratic

[1:21] presidential primary, making him look

[1:23] more and more like the Democratic

[1:25] presidential nominee for 1992. The

[1:28] election polls are now closed in all

[1:30] four of tonight's primary states. Here

[1:32] in New York, correspondent Richard

[1:34] Thrill is tracking the Democrats

[1:35] tonight. Who's hot, who's not, and why.

[1:38] Richard? Dan, New York was the roughest,

[1:40] toughest primary yet. And tonight, Bill

[1:42] Clinton can claim to have survived it.

[1:46] >> Clinton will attend a victory party in

[1:48] New York tonight. Our exit poll of New

[1:50] York primary voters showed one key to

[1:52] his victory was that he did well among

[1:54] those voters over 60, an age group which

[1:57] votes most consistently. Clinton also

[1:59] got more of the late deciders. Onethird

[2:02] said they made up their minds on the

[2:04] candidate in the last 4 days. Paul

[2:06] Sonis, who had dropped out of the race,

[2:08] but whose name was still on the ballot,

[2:10] owed his big showing to the same voters

[2:12] who'd supported him in other primaries.

[2:14] He did well in the suburbs and among

[2:16] higher income voters. Tonight, Songis is

[2:19] mulling over whether to get back into

[2:21] the race.

[2:22] >> I It's really a matter of not only how I

[2:24] do, I I knew that we would do well, but

[2:27] how the others did. Jerry Brown had

[2:29] hoped to do better by courting the black

[2:31] vote. An effort that caused some

[2:32] controversy today when Clinton attacked

[2:35] Brown for this pamphlet comparing South

[2:37] Africa to Clinton's home state of

[2:39] Arkansas, which has no state civil

[2:41] rights law.

[2:42] >> Jerry Brown compared my state to South

[2:44] Africa in an 11th hour mailing to the

[2:47] black community. One of the more gutless

[2:49] things I've ever seen a politician do.

[2:51] And I think that that's something he'll

[2:53] have to answer for. Brown's promise to

[2:55] name Jesse Jackson his vice president

[2:57] allowed him to cut deeply into Clinton's

[2:59] strength among black voters. But at a

[3:02] cost, Clinton and Songus won the vast

[3:04] majority of the important Jewish vote

[3:06] here. As the vote for Songus indicated,

[3:09] neither Clinton nor Brown was all that

[3:11] popular with New York voters. Twothirds

[3:14] of our sample said they're not satisfied

[3:16] with the choice.

[3:17] >> It wasn't even until uh the last 10

[3:19] minutes I decided who I was going to

[3:21] vote for.

[3:22] >> Basically, I flipped the coin. Tomorrow,

[3:24] Paul Sonistan will announce whether he's

[3:26] getting back in the race. He uh he may

[3:29] do that. Jerry Brown certainly has shown

[3:31] that he can run for president on a

[3:32] shoestring. Perhaps Paul Sus can too.

[3:34] We'll see. Dan Richard Trail. Thanks.

[3:38] Underscoring that Governor Clinton has

[3:40] won the Kansas presidential primary. He

[3:42] and Jerry Brown are locked in a close

[3:44] race in Wisconsin, also a close race in

[3:46] Minnesota. While President Bush did well

[3:49] in tonight's primaries, he has had some

[3:51] political trouble closer to home. White

[3:53] House correspondent Susan Spencer tells

[3:55] us more about that.

[3:57] >> Money's got to come.

[3:58] >> While the Democrats devour one another,

[4:00] President Bush coasts above it all,

[4:02] making speeches about reform to

[4:04] sometimes bored audiences seemingly

[4:06] content.

[4:07] >> Some people think I've been traveling a

[4:09] little too much. So, today is an example

[4:12] of my new policy. No trips further than

[4:15] one block away from the White House.

[4:18] >> Trips may have been on his mind. Today,

[4:20] the General Accounting Office reported

[4:22] that in the first two years of the Bush

[4:24] administration, cabinet officers racked

[4:26] up more than threequarters of a million

[4:28] taxpayer dollars in travel expenses, for

[4:31] which they have reimbursed the

[4:32] government a poultry 61,000.

[4:35] GAO finds nothing illegal, but

[4:37] reimbursement is set at Coach Fair plus

[4:39] a dollar, and travel on military

[4:41] aircraft costs a lot more than that.

[4:44] This is uh outrageous

[4:48] uh that for the the price of a

[4:50] commercial ticket you would get the use

[4:53] of an entire aircraft.

[4:54] >> The frequent flyer trips of former chief

[4:56] of staff John Cenounu also came back to

[4:59] haunt the executive mansion today. After

[5:01] a scathing report from the Office of

[5:03] Government Ethics, Cenounu was ordered

[5:05] to repay some $4,000,

[5:08] reimbursements for personal trips he

[5:10] took at taxpayer expense, including two

[5:13] to Colorado ski resorts. Governor

[5:15] Cenounu had no comment. The White House

[5:17] admitted no mistakes on his part, and

[5:19] said the matter is closed. But not for

[5:22] Congress. With its own perks under fire,

[5:25] Congress is still trying in vain to

[5:27] determine just how much Mr. Bush's trips

[5:29] cost each year. sensing a potential

[5:31] public relations problem here.

[5:33] Administration officials have agreed

[5:35] reluctantly to testify about that later

[5:38] this week. Susan Spencer, CBS News, the

[5:41] White House.

[5:42] >> One other political note, CBS News has

[5:44] been told that first term Democratic

[5:45] Senator Tim Worth of Colorado will not

[5:47] run for reelection this year. That makes

[5:49] Worth the fourth senator to announce his

[5:51] retirement in recent days. We have

[5:54] another breaking story tonight from the

[5:56] Middle East, the facts about which are

[5:58] unclear. No confirmation yet, but Libya

[6:01] says officially a plane carrying Yasa

[6:02] Arafat, longtime leader of the Palestine

[6:05] Liberation Organization has disappeared

[6:07] in bad weather over the Libyan desert.

[6:09] PLO sources in Tunis acknowledge

[6:11] Arafat's plane vanished near the town of

[6:14] Sara. Arafat was to visit a PLO base

[6:16] there. Arafat was flying from Kartum,

[6:19] capital of Sudan. Again, this has not

[6:22] been confirmed, but Libya is saying a

[6:24] plane carrying PLO Chief Yasa Arafat

[6:26] from Sudan has vanished over the Libyan

[6:29] desert.

[6:31] In other news today, it was powerful

[6:33] enough to register as a moderate

[6:35] earthquake. A thunderous explosion of a

[6:38] gas pipeline in eastern central Texas

[6:41] killed at least one person and left

[6:42] cattle dead in their tracks. James

[6:45] Shaturi reports from Brennham, Texas.

[6:49] A pipeline valve continued to burn this

[6:51] afternoon, marking ground zero of an

[6:53] explosion which turned acres of lush

[6:55] southeast Texas farmland into scorched

[6:58] earth.

[6:59] >> And now there's nothing. It's just like

[7:00] somebody had dropped a bomb. The back of

[7:03] our house is gone.

[7:04] >> I noticed a strange fog through the

[7:06] valley and the next thing I knew it was

[7:09] just a tremendous bang. It threw me

[7:11] across the track.

[7:13] >> I thought my truck had blown up. Dozens

[7:16] of houses were destroyed or damaged. The

[7:18] blast was so strong it was felt in

[7:20] Houston, 85 miles away, and registered a

[7:23] four on the RTOR scale.

[7:25] >> It's total chaos. I mean, there's people

[7:28] coming out of the houses. They didn't

[7:30] know what hit them. And uh there's two

[7:33] people in a car down here with a little

[7:34] kid on the road that just flattened

[7:37] their car. Officials are still

[7:39] investigating, but the explosion

[7:40] apparently occurred along a pipeline

[7:42] carrying natural gas liquids near an

[7:44] underground salt dome used for gas

[7:47] storage. One of the residents here

[7:49] injured this morning reportedly said he

[7:51] was warned by a utility crew that a

[7:53] pipeline in the area was leaking. He

[7:55] said he smelled gas in the morning fog

[7:57] and then everything exploded. a light

[7:59] bulb could sound it off or some ignition

[8:01] source set it off that there was

[8:03] apparently a heavy gas leak and uh and

[8:06] and the rest you see yourself

[8:08] >> and what's now apparent to residents

[8:10] here is the real danger buried beneath

[8:13] their homes James CBS News Brenham Texas

[8:18] still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[8:19] News Russia and Ukraine make the same

[8:21] claim command of the powerful Black Sea

[8:24] Fleet and in Los Angeles the gang wars

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[9:38] President Boris Yelson went before the

[9:39] Russian Congress today to take the heat

[9:41] in person for his economic reforms.

[9:44] Yelson also admitted that he's worried

[9:46] about an escalating power struggle with

[9:48] rival Ukraine as correspondent Anthony

[9:51] Mason reports from Moscow.

[9:54] >> Who controls the 300 ships of the old

[9:57] Soviet Navy's Black Sea fleet tonight?

[10:00] Ukraine, says President Leonid Krabchuk.

[10:03] Russia, says President Boris Yelen. In

[10:05] the past 24 hours, the two leaders have

[10:08] issued contradictory decrees, each

[10:10] formally claiming the nuclear capable

[10:12] fleet as their own and renewing a feud

[10:15] that has repeatedly threatened to

[10:16] the Commonwealth. Deputies in

[10:19] the Russian Congress meeting in Moscow

[10:21] today were indignant at Ukraine's claim.

[10:24] In the history of the fleet, said Vice

[10:26] President Ruskcoy, the Ukrainian flag

[10:28] has never flown over its ships. the

[10:31] fleet on the Black Sea, the typical

[10:34] Russian fleet.

[10:35] >> I'm afraid that Russia now have a quite

[10:37] narrow range of possible reactions. So

[10:40] tonight, Yeltson issued his own decree.

[10:43] The dispute between the two stubborn

[10:45] leaders has become increasingly bitter.

[10:47] At the Commonwealth Summit in Kiev last

[10:49] month, Krabchuk was made to wait as

[10:51] Yelen strolled in defiantly late. But

[10:54] outside that meeting, thousands rallied

[10:56] in support of Krabchuk. Ukraine is free

[10:59] country. It will never more be part of

[11:02] any other country.

[11:04] >> And Ukraine defiantly has begun forming

[11:06] its own army has claimed jurisdiction

[11:09] over nuclear weapons on its soil and

[11:11] says a fleet anchored in Ukrainian

[11:13] waters should be Ukrainian. But the

[11:15] Crimea, the region where the fleet is

[11:17] stationed, was only seated to Ukraine in

[11:20] 1954.

[11:21] Tonight, Commonwealth Television

[11:23] reported a poll of Crimean residents

[11:25] showing that 69% would rather be part of

[11:28] Russia. Both sides called for immediate

[11:31] negotiations, but they haven't been very

[11:32] good at talking. Since December, four

[11:35] Commonwealth summits have failed to

[11:36] resolve the dispute, said the Russian

[11:38] vice president. This is all about

[11:40] emotions. Anthony Mason, CBS News,

[11:43] Moscow.

[11:44] >> A public warning today to Ukraine from

[11:46] Secretary of State Baker. Baker

[11:48] indicated US aid could be cut unless

[11:50] Ukraine honors an agreement to ship its

[11:52] tactical nuclear weapons to Russia for

[11:55] dismantling. The US military today

[11:58] downgraded the success rate of the

[12:00] Patriot missile in the Gulf War, but

[12:02] congressional investigators say the

[12:03] claims are still much too high. The Army

[12:06] now says patriots fought down only about

[12:08] 70% of Iraqi Scuds fired at Saudi Arabia

[12:11] and only about 40% of those fired at

[12:13] Israel. The 1992 publisher prizes were

[12:16] announced today. Among the winners, Jane

[12:18] Smiley for the novel A, Thousand Acres.

[12:21] For general non-fiction, the winner is

[12:23] Daniel Jurgen for quote the prize, the

[12:26] epic quest for oil, money, and power.

[12:29] And a special Pulitzer was awarded to

[12:31] Art Spiegelman for a cartoon book

[12:33] depiction of the Nazi Holocaust called

[12:35] Mouse, Ma.

[12:38] Thomas Fleming picked up his award at

[12:40] the White House today. A crystal apple

[12:41] presented to America's teacher of the

[12:43] year. At age 17, Fleming was a Detroit

[12:46] high school dropout who couldn't read.

[12:48] Now he has a master's degree and teaches

[12:50] at a juvenile detention center in Ann

[12:52] Arbor, Michigan. Stay here with us now

[12:54] for more CBS news, including new

[12:56] treatment for a disease that ruins a lot

[12:59] of vacations.

[13:05] The fox and the grapes.

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[15:00] year. The UN says as many as half those

[15:02] deaths could be prevented by healthier

[15:04] living, including more exercise and

[15:05] better eating. There's word tonight of a

[15:08] new treatment for one of the most common

[15:09] and annoying medical problems for

[15:11] travelers abroad and for other people.

[15:13] CBS News health correspondent Edie

[15:15] Magnus has the details.

[15:20] Along with the ecstasy of a vacation in

[15:22] some exotic place,

[15:25] there's the agony of those not so

[15:27] precious moments that you might spend,

[15:30] you know, where

[15:31] >> when Monizuma's revenge hits, it's like

[15:35] debilitating. And so, you end up

[15:37] spending a lot more time around the

[15:38] hotel room worrying about whether it's

[15:40] going to get better and you're going to

[15:41] get be able to get on with your

[15:42] vacation. Basically, it's was kind of

[15:44] horrible. I'd be reluctant to go to

[15:47] Mexico or Europe because of the problem

[15:49] of possibly getting diarrhea.

[15:51] >> Today researchers announced they found a

[15:53] safe effective treatment for travelers

[15:55] diarrhea. An antibiotic called estrianam

[15:59] currently available as an intravenous

[16:01] treatment for infections. Estrienam was

[16:03] given in pill form to people in Mexico

[16:05] who were suffering from bacterial

[16:07] diarrhea. their diarrhea when they took

[16:10] the antibiotic was lessened by well over

[16:12] 50%. Uh showing us that it worked very

[16:15] well to relieve the symptoms.

[16:17] >> Doctors are particularly encouraged that

[16:19] as trianam produced no serious side

[16:21] effects commonly associated with other

[16:23] prescription diarrhea drugs.

[16:25] >> You can use it in children where we

[16:27] don't have a good antibiotic to use and

[16:29] we predict you can use it in pregnant

[16:30] women where there also is not a good

[16:32] antibiotic to use. There are

[16:34] over-the-counter remedies for bacterial

[16:36] diarrhea, but experts say they mainly

[16:38] treat symptoms like cramping or nausea.

[16:40] Whereas, as trianam kills the germ that

[16:43] causes diarrhea.

[16:45] Oddly enough, the drugs maker Bristol

[16:47] Myers Squib said tonight they have no

[16:49] immediate plans to get approval to

[16:51] market as Trianam in an oral form for

[16:54] diarrhea. The company said it's not sure

[16:57] about the size of the market and would

[16:59] like more studies to confirm this one.

[17:01] Stan.

[17:01] >> So, an oral form could be coming later.

[17:03] Idy Magnus. Thanks. Still to come on

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[19:00] >> Gang wars are on the increase and they

[19:02] are wars without end. For example, Lorna

[19:05] Hawkins has no more sons left to lose to

[19:07] the deadly gang violence of Los Angeles.

[19:10] She buried her second son today. Ron

[19:13] Allen tells us how a mother's outrage is

[19:15] giving way to despair.

[19:18] This solemn ritual is painfully familiar

[19:20] to Lorna Hawkins. The lonely journey to

[19:23] bury a son.

[19:25] >> 21-year-old Joe was killed in a drive-by

[19:27] shooting four years ago. Today, Hawkins

[19:30] said goodbye to her last son. Gerald,

[19:32] aged 20, another innocent victim of gang

[19:35] violence.

[19:36] >> It hurts so bad. Nobody really really

[19:39] knows except mothers who've lost their

[19:42] kids. I've known and I've talked to more

[19:45] mothers than I care to who have lost two

[19:48] and three kids. So, I'm not alone.

[19:55] >> After gang members killed her first son,

[19:57] Hawkins started a local cable TV

[19:59] program. Drive by agony has become a

[20:02] crusade, a mix of therapy and outrage to

[20:05] raise awareness that gang violence kills

[20:08] innocent people, too.

[20:09] >> He was just an average kid.

[20:12] And unfortunately, he was what they tell

[20:15] me at the wrong place at the wrong time.

[20:17] I've already started fighting because my

[20:19] first son was dead and I'm about to

[20:20] fight for something else and I'm tired.

[20:23] I mean, I have no more sons, so you

[20:26] know, they can't come and get any more

[20:28] from me. Police never caught the gang

[20:30] members who killed her first son, but

[20:32] this time there are witnesses who saw

[20:34] Gerald get shot in the back. And there

[20:36] may be an arrest soon if those witnesses

[20:38] are willing to come forward.

[20:40] >> Today, inside the church, Mner shared

[20:43] Hawkins message that the violence must

[20:45] stop. The young brothers and sisters, we

[20:48] must change. We must have peace in our

[20:51] community.

[20:52] >> But as Hawkins buried her last son, she

[20:54] couldn't help but wonder if anyone has

[20:57] been listening. Ron Allen, CBS News, Los

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[23:15] >> Well, the battle lines are drawn. Rarely

[23:17] have Americans had such a clear-cut

[23:19] choice. One side appealing to

[23:21] traditional tastes, the other offering

[23:24] fundamental change. Mark Phillips

[23:26] reports tonight's Eye on America. The

[23:28] making of a condiment. 1992.

[23:36] Like so many soldiers loaded and primed,

[23:39] they've been forming ranks and heading

[23:41] off to America's great food fight. The

[23:43] condiment conflict of our time. King

[23:46] Ketchup versus saucy salsa. And in this

[23:49] bottled battle by the Goliaths of Goop,

[23:52] a new champion has emerged.

[23:56] >> Last year, Americans spent more on

[23:58] salsa, $40 million more, than they did

[24:00] on ketchup. It may have something to do

[24:03] with the wow factor.

[24:04] >> They will come in and they want food

[24:06] that just gives them a wow in their

[24:09] mouth and and and I think Mexican food

[24:12] has, you know, very much done that.

[24:16] >> But the sounds of this food are not just

[24:19] the strumming of Mexican guitars and

[24:21] munching of tacos. It's the sound of a

[24:23] revolution in American eating habits.

[24:25] >> It tasted good and it was exciting. The

[24:27] other side is that it was manifestally

[24:30] better for you.

[24:32] >> For some time now, America has been

[24:34] looking for a different way to eat.

[24:36] Products being sold for what's not in

[24:38] them rather than what is. Marketing by

[24:40] subtraction, the food industry calls it.

[24:42] >> So, we're going to kind of throw the

[24:44] salt out today.

[24:45] >> These people spent almost $500 each for

[24:48] a weekend course in how not to cook.

[24:50] >> So, we're not going to use any butter in

[24:51] cooking today.

[24:52] >> But if you take all the old fat and salt

[24:54] tastes out, what do you put in? We're

[24:56] also going to use some fresh ginger

[24:58] today.

[24:59] >> Exotic ethnic eating fads riding the

[25:01] wave of food fear have been rolling

[25:03] across the country. Remember Sichuan

[25:06] Chinese in the 70s? Blackened everything

[25:08] Louisiana Cajun in the 80s.

[25:10] >> You had the black and chicken fetuccini.

[25:14] >> Yet all the while the biggest revolution

[25:16] so far was being stirred up in places

[25:18] like Maria Treveniah's restaurant in the

[25:20] southwest. If there's an original home,

[25:22] a mother load if you will, of Mexican

[25:24] cooking, it's here in the Texmex

[25:26] kitchens of San Antonio. It's been

[25:28] living here in splendid regional

[25:30] isolation for generations. Somehow,

[25:32] though, and more so lately, it's gotten

[25:34] out out of Maria Treveniah's kitchen,

[25:37] out of town, and out of Texas, and into

[25:41] trendy eeries all over the country, and

[25:43] not just here with the power lunch set.

[25:45] Have you checked your local supermarket

[25:47] lately? Today we see a whole wall full

[25:49] of of salsas and piccanti sauce and

[25:52] Mexican products.

[25:53] >> The salsa market has been growing at 20%

[25:55] a year. A previously unheard of rate for

[25:58] the food business.

[25:59] >> Ethnic really has gone mainstream.

[26:01] >> Welcome to McDonald's.

[26:02] >> Mainstream into the home of the ketchup

[26:05] covered hamburger.

[26:06] >> 99 cent chicken fajitas.

[26:07] >> Mainstream the salsa with rice.

[26:10] >> The latest product line from the

[26:11] Campbell Soup Company who've come a long

[26:13] way from cream of mushroom.

[26:15] >> The best. You just pop the dinners in

[26:17] the oven.

[26:18] >> Just for the record, this is what frozen

[26:20] dinners used to look like.

[26:21] >> Big tender slices of Swanson turkey with

[26:24] brown gravy.

[26:25] >> What happened?

[26:26] >> The huge bulge in the population who

[26:28] turned 40 about 5 years ago now are

[26:30] approaching that big 5. They're very

[26:33] much conscious of the fact that they're,

[26:34] you know, they're no they're not

[26:35] omnipotent and that they're they're

[26:37] mortal.

[26:38] >> Food as a health insurance policy. Food

[26:40] without fear. And when you're tired of

[26:43] caviar and growth in

[26:44] >> unless like some you're afraid a diet

[26:47] based on salsa's potent peppers will

[26:49] blow your taste buds away for life.

[26:51] >> If one is used to eating that very hot

[26:53] food, I think your pallet is mostly

[26:56] gone. It's just overload. Pallet

[26:59] overload. I would think so. Or pallet

[27:01] pallet death.

[27:05] Don't tell that though to the great

[27:07] chefs of San Antonio who now get calls

[27:10] for advice from around the country.

[27:12] >> You got to come back home to taste the

[27:13] real stuff. How is it different? Uh I

[27:15] think it's the pots and pans that we

[27:17] use.

[27:19] >> Salsa, the new spice of life in San

[27:23] Antonio. I'm Mark Phillips for Eye on

[27:25] America.

[27:27] >> How about that?

[27:30] >> Updating tonight's two late breaking

[27:32] stories in tomorrow's headlines. PLO

[27:34] leader Yaser Arafat's plane is missing.

[27:35] Libya says officially Arafat's plane

[27:38] disappeared in the Libyan desert. And

[27:40] the still unfolding political story here

[27:42] at home. A good night for Democrat Bill

[27:44] Clinton, the governor of Arkansas in

[27:46] tonight's four presidential primary

[27:48] states, New York, Wisconsin, Kansas, and

[27:51] Minnesota. He may not have won them all.

[27:53] He did win the big one, New York. On the

[27:55] Republican side, the Bush Quailo ticket

[27:57] wins everywhere tonight. In effect, it

[27:58] had no real opposition. But there is

[28:00] another sizable Republican primary

[28:03] protest vote. We'll wrap up all the

[28:05] primary results in a CBS News special

[28:07] immediately after your late local news

[28:10] tonight. Dan Rather, I'll see you again

[28:12] soon.

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