CBS Evening News - 1992-03-23

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[0:00] Thanks for joining us.

[0:01] >> We'll see you tonight at 11.

[0:13] The search for clues in a deadly New

[0:15] York City plane crash. Survivors tell

[0:17] their story. Libya says it's now ready

[0:20] to turn over the Panama 103 bombing

[0:22] suspect under one condition. And the

[0:25] money crunch. Tonight, tax changes you

[0:28] need to know about before you file.

[0:31] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:39] Good evening, I'm Connie Chun sitting in

[0:41] tonight for Dan Rather. Federal

[0:43] investigators don't know yet what caused

[0:45] a US Air jet to crash on takeoff from

[0:48] New York LaGuardia Airport last night.

[0:50] The flight recorders were sent to

[0:51] Washington today, but they do know it

[0:54] was a miracle. 24 people survived. At

[0:57] least 26 were killed. Mark Phillips

[1:00] begins our coverage

[1:02] >> from out of the smoldering wreckage.

[1:04] Investigators are trying to piece

[1:06] together what happened. They do know

[1:07] that in the snowstorm that delayed

[1:09] flight 405, it had been deiced twice.

[1:12] The last time about a half hour before

[1:14] its attempted takeoff. They know the

[1:16] plane began what would appear to be a

[1:18] normal takeoff roll. The pilot had gone

[1:20] beyond the point where he could have

[1:21] tried to abort if there had been a

[1:23] problem at the time. The plane became

[1:25] briefly airborne but then dipped to the

[1:27] left. The wing seems to have made

[1:29] contact and the plane then crashed back

[1:31] down and skidded off the runway and into

[1:33] the surrounding water. This soon after a

[1:36] crash, investigators look at all the

[1:38] factors.

[1:38] >> When we look at the weather factors and

[1:41] the operational factors, we'll be

[1:43] looking at issues such as uh deicing.

[1:46] >> The Dutchbuilt Fauler 28 has an

[1:48] excellent safety record, but ice can

[1:50] still be a problem. When the ice builds

[1:52] up on these wings here, it changes the

[1:54] shape. And when that happens, the lift

[1:56] isn't as good. And critical Yeah. In a

[1:58] critical situation, it doesn't have

[1:59] enough lift to lift the airplane up in

[2:00] some cases. And this may have caused it.

[2:02] >> The layout of LaGuardia Airport with

[2:04] relatively short runways extending on

[2:06] peers over water may have contributed to

[2:08] the death toll.

[2:09] >> The number one problem with LaGuardia is

[2:11] it takes away most of our room for

[2:13] error. It takes away most of your safety

[2:15] buffer.

[2:15] >> If the plane has to go off the edge of

[2:17] the runway and there's nothing but water

[2:18] there, then you've got a serious

[2:19] problem. Investigators will be trying to

[2:21] determine if allowing a half hour

[2:23] between deicing and takeoff is too long.

[2:26] And they'll have a real advantage in

[2:28] this inquiry. In addition to the flight

[2:30] information in the black boxes, they'll

[2:32] have a surviving cockpit crew member

[2:34] with likely an all too vivid

[2:35] recollection of what happened. Mark

[2:38] Phillips, CBS News, Washington.

[2:41] >> In spite of the ordeal of fire and ice

[2:43] and water, nearly half of the people on

[2:46] board Flight 405 live to tell about it.

[2:48] Jacqueline Adams has some of their

[2:50] amazing stories of survival.

[2:53] >> I saw an explosion out the window cuz I

[2:56] saw this bright orange

[2:59] light twisting metal and uh

[3:04] scraping sounds and the feeling of being

[3:08] thrown about not believing that it was

[3:10] me. Soap opera actor Richard Lawson was

[3:13] one of 47 passengers bound for Cleveland

[3:15] last night who was troubled by the

[3:17] 2-hour snow delay. Indeed, once US

[3:20] Airflight 405 skidded off the Lagoria

[3:22] Airport runway and flipped over, it

[3:24] became the flight from hell.

[3:26] >> It was all busted up. I mean, it was I

[3:28] mean, twisted metal, broke with

[3:30] fiberglass. Uh, it was it was really a

[3:33] horror. Hundreds of rescue workers

[3:35] rushed to the crash site where Lawson

[3:37] and accountant Robert Spear somehow made

[3:39] it out of the upside down wreckage and

[3:41] through both flames and the waistdeep

[3:44] frigid waters of Flushing Bay.

[3:46] >> It seemed like the cockpit area was on

[3:48] fire. The whole front of the plane, it

[3:50] was just a lot of smoke and uh flames.

[3:54] >> I was literally trapped upside down in

[3:57] the plane face down. And I remember

[4:01] thinking, you know, of all the ways to

[4:03] die, not underwater. And then I saw a

[4:06] face and a hand reach into the hole of

[4:08] the fuselage and says, "Give me your

[4:10] hand." And he took my hand and he pulled

[4:13] me through the hole.

[4:16] >> For rescue workers, it was the worst of

[4:18] all possible worlds.

[4:20] >> Snow, the visibility, the fire, the

[4:22] smoke, the injuries, the water, the

[4:24] debris, the uh baggage floating. It was

[4:28] bizarre. The pilot's body was found

[4:30] upside down, strapped to his feet. But

[4:33] both the co-pilot and one flight

[4:35] attendant were among the survivors.

[4:37] Doctors at a local hospital treated

[4:39] burns and broken bones and one grateful

[4:42] young woman who did not want to be

[4:43] identified.

[4:44] >> No, I was one of the luckiest people on

[4:46] earth. I I am. I've got a guardian angel

[4:49] sitting on my shoulder. I can't believe

[4:51] I actually walked away from this.

[4:53] >> Jacqueline Adams, CBS News, New York.

[4:57] Officially,

[4:59] the US military still refuses to say why

[5:02] a big C130 cargo plane plowed into a

[5:05] motel and restaurant last month in

[5:06] Evansville, Indiana. But CBS News

[5:09] Pentagon correspondent David Martin

[5:10] confirmed today that crash investigators

[5:13] are blaming pilot error. The Kentucky

[5:15] Air National Guard pilot reportedly was

[5:18] simulating an engine failure just before

[5:20] the crash. 16 people were killed under

[5:24] the threat of UN sanctions. Libya said

[5:26] today it will hand over two suspects in

[5:28] the bombing of Panama Flight 103, but

[5:31] not to the United States or Britain

[5:33] where they are under indictment.

[5:35] Instead, the Gaddafi regime said it will

[5:37] turn the men over to the Arab League.

[5:39] Correspondent Bill Plant has the

[5:41] reaction from the US State Department.

[5:42] Bill?

[5:43] >> Well, Connie, the Bush administration

[5:45] greeted the Libyan offer to turn over

[5:46] the two locker suspects to the Arab

[5:48] League with skepticism bordering on

[5:50] contempt. The US sees this is just

[5:53] another in a long line of delaying

[5:55] tactics designed to stall rather than

[5:57] comply with the UN resolution which

[6:00] orders Gaddafi's government to turn the

[6:02] two men over for trial by the US or

[6:05] Britain. The two men accused of bombing

[6:07] Panama Flight 103.

[6:10] >> As you know, we don't believe that Libya

[6:12] has complied. Libya knows well what they

[6:15] have to do. The two suspects are

[6:17] believed responsible for the deaths of

[6:19] 441 people in the explosion of Panama

[6:22] 103 over Lockerby Scotland in 1988 and a

[6:25] French airliner a year later. But Libya

[6:28] has refused despite the UN resolution to

[6:30] surrender them. As a result, the US,

[6:32] Britain, and France are trying to get

[6:34] the UN to impose economic sanctions on

[6:36] Libya, which is trying to dodge that

[6:39] bullet with the offer to turn the men

[6:40] over to the Arab League. We hope that

[6:43] can put uh an end to this uh unnecessary

[6:49] confrontation.

[6:50] >> Well, that's not likely. The Libyans are

[6:52] taking the issue now to the

[6:53] International Court of Justice.

[6:55] Washington fears that between the World

[6:57] Court and the Arab League. Libya could

[6:59] continue to delay this for just years.

[7:01] So, officials here vow to continue

[7:03] pressing for sanctions. The evidence

[7:05] against these guys, said one senior

[7:07] official, is so definitive that there's

[7:09] no way we're going to walk away from

[7:11] this. Connie.

[7:13] >> All right. Thank you, Bill. Plant. UN

[7:15] officials say Saddam Hussein is now

[7:17] cooperating with UN teams in destroying

[7:19] Iraq's most dangerous weapons.

[7:22] Inspectors have been examining pieces of

[7:24] Scud missiles, which the Iraqis claimed

[7:25] they destroyed and buried last summer.

[7:28] But the UN inspectors say it will be

[7:30] some time before they can verify that

[7:32] all the Scuds have been scrapped.

[7:34] Still to come on tonight's CBS Evening

[7:36] News, growing pains for more American

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[8:53] A new snapshot today of the health and

[8:56] well-being of children in this country.

[8:58] For a growing number of them, it's not a

[9:00] pretty picture. Eric Angberg reports on

[9:02] the young face of poverty in America.

[9:08] >> The way America treats its children,

[9:10] from newborns to teens, has deteriorated

[9:13] to danger levels. According to a study

[9:15] out today, this premature baby born to a

[9:18] cocaine using mother in a Washington

[9:20] hospital weighed 1 lb 10 ounces at

[9:23] birth. Such underweight births, often a

[9:25] precursor to serious health problems,

[9:27] are on the rise across the country.

[9:29] >> Here, over the last few years, we have

[9:33] doubled this to almost 15%.

[9:35] >> Other yard sticks for measuring child

[9:37] well-being compiled by the child

[9:39] advocacy group Kids Count point to

[9:42] trouble. While the death rate for

[9:44] infants has declined, the teen years

[9:46] have gotten more dangerous. Violent teen

[9:49] deaths climbed 11% in 5 years. Reason,

[9:53] soaring rates for murder and suicide.

[9:56] More children are having children. There

[9:58] were 76,000 more babies born to single

[10:01] teens in 1989 than in 1980. The number

[10:05] of children living in single parent

[10:07] families has grown by 2 million in the

[10:09] decade. And the study found one in five

[10:12] children was poor, an increase of 22%

[10:15] during the 80s. That

[10:16] >> if we don't turn these numbers around in

[10:18] the decade, uh we I mean every American,

[10:21] regardless of of age or their family

[10:23] status, we're going to be in deep

[10:25] trouble.

[10:26] >> As child poverty has grown, social

[10:28] workers have encountered more homeless

[10:29] children.

[10:30] >> They forget how to laugh. They just sit.

[10:33] They cry a lot. We have a lot of kids

[10:35] that cry.

[10:37] um that they've lost a sense of trust.

[10:40] >> Americans are very aware that something

[10:42] is wrong in the way children are

[10:44] treated. A poll released with today's

[10:46] survey found that adults by a margin of

[10:48] 2 to1 think today's kids have it worse

[10:51] than their parents did. Eric, CBS News,

[10:54] Washington.

[10:56] >> In the presidential race, Arkansas

[10:58] Governor Bill Clinton is banking on the

[11:00] Connecticut primary tomorrow to help him

[11:02] help him lock up the Democratic

[11:04] nomination. But Clinton is taking more

[11:06] heat from rival Jerry Brown and facing

[11:08] more questions about his past. Richard

[11:11] Roeld has the latest.

[11:14] >> Bill Clinton was on the road in

[11:15] Connecticut today answering a batch of

[11:17] new allegations item. The Los Angeles

[11:20] Times says that as governor, Clinton

[11:22] helped to get a state contract for this

[11:24] man, Dan Lacier, who was later convicted

[11:27] of dealing cocaine. Clinton later

[11:29] pardoned him. Today, Clinton's campaign

[11:32] said the governor had no role in

[11:34] awarding that contract and that the

[11:36] pardon was a routine administrative act

[11:38] item. The Washington Post said Clinton

[11:41] accepted free air transportation on some

[11:43] business trips from the owner of this

[11:45] multi-million dollar chicken processing

[11:48] plant, which is one of Arkansas's

[11:50] biggest polluters. Clinton says those

[11:52] trips are all on the public record and

[11:54] he doesn't consider them inappropriate

[11:57] item. As recently as last week, Clinton

[11:59] played golf at a Little Rock Country

[12:01] Club of which he's an honorary member,

[12:03] which has no black members. Clinton

[12:06] admits that was a mistake, but insists

[12:08] it is no blemish on his civil rights

[12:10] record.

[12:11] >> I have noticed that we lived and worked

[12:15] an integrated life with a commitment to

[12:16] equal opportunity.

[12:18] >> All this is new ammunition for Clinton's

[12:20] remaining Democratic rival, Jerry Brown,

[12:23] who has stepped up his attacks on

[12:25] Clinton's character. The idea of going

[12:27] and playing golf in the middle of a

[12:28] presidential campaign at an Arkansas

[12:31] golf club that has no black members is

[12:34] incredible.

[12:35] >> Today, the Democratic Party chairman

[12:37] said, "Enough already."

[12:39] >> When Jerry Brown conducts personal

[12:41] attacks on Bill Clinton, it not only

[12:43] damages his own candidacy, but frankly

[12:46] hurts our ability to beat George Bush.

[12:48] >> Clinton, meantime, is now airing a

[12:50] campaign ad attacking Jerry Brown. So

[12:53] next time Jerry Brown says he's fighting

[12:54] for the people, ask him which people and

[12:57] which Jerry Brown.

[12:59] >> The Democratic establishment still has

[13:01] the jitters about Clinton's

[13:02] electability, but the best test of

[13:04] electability is getting elected. And

[13:06] Bill Clinton keeps winning primaries.

[13:08] Next test, tomorrow's primary in

[13:10] Connecticut. Richard Trell, CBS News,

[13:13] New York.

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[14:57] Four girls murdered in cold blood. A

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[15:02] killed these girls? 48 hours Wednesday.

[15:08] >> The Supreme Court agreed today to take

[15:10] up a case that could affect thousands of

[15:12] you at tax time. The court will decide

[15:14] under what circumstances you may deduct

[15:17] an inhome office if you spend most of

[15:19] your workday outside the home. The

[15:22] deadline for filing your 1991 returns is

[15:24] just 23 days away. And all this week,

[15:26] the CBS Evening News reports a special

[15:29] series. Tonight, correspondent Ray Brady

[15:32] tells you what's different this year in

[15:34] the money crunch. Your taxes.

[15:37] >> Gosh, Jan, I don't think that's

[15:39] deductible.

[15:40] >> Watch carefully. You're in a tax

[15:42] attorney's office where you're about to

[15:44] see Janet Lowry income a little over

[15:47] $40,000 a year. You're about to see her

[15:50] go into tax shock.

[15:53] >> 2,6

[15:55] 36 and 36 and 1,041

[15:59] above what my estimates are.

[16:01] >> Above what your estimates are? That's

[16:02] impossible. No, it's not.

[16:04] >> The message is clear. When you start

[16:06] making out your 1991 taxes, bring money.

[16:10] There have been a lot of small changes

[16:12] in the tax laws over the years. Sleepers

[16:15] that are now adding up to bigger bills

[16:17] for many taxpayers who make more than

[16:19] $30,000 a year.

[16:21] >> A lot of the taxpayers that I see are

[16:23] paying between $600 and $2,000 more in

[16:25] taxes.

[16:26] >> That's a big jump.

[16:27] >> It's quite a big jump.

[16:28] >> There's some good news. If your adjusted

[16:31] gross income isn't more than $100,000,

[16:34] your exemption's higher. $2,150

[16:37] for you and each dependent. And if you

[16:39] don't itemize, the standard deduction is

[16:42] up. $3,400 for a single filer, 5,700 if

[16:47] married filing jointly. But tear up that

[16:50] credit card, interest and fees on that,

[16:53] car loans and the like. Not one penny of

[16:55] deduction anymore. Only interest on a

[16:58] mortgage or a home equity loans

[17:00] deductible. What I'm recommending to

[17:02] people to do is to explore uh a home

[17:05] equity uh line of credit so that they

[17:09] can use that to buy their car and still

[17:12] deduct the interest.

[17:13] >> The government's also tightened on the

[17:15] job business expenses for middle income

[17:17] taxpayers. Those policemen make around

[17:20] $30,000 a year. For many, their uniforms

[17:23] won't be deductible anymore. Carpenters,

[17:26] plumbers, and similar professions will

[17:29] also be hit by disappearing deductions,

[17:32] just like Janet Prior was in her real

[17:34] estate job.

[17:35] >> I guess before I had more areas that I

[17:37] could deduct within,

[17:38] >> some taxpayers without company pension

[17:41] plans can save on taxes by taking out an

[17:44] individual retirement account. That's

[17:46] $2,000 a year going to your IRA, not to

[17:50] the IRS.

[17:52] One final tip before you mail in your

[17:54] taxes. It may be wise not to use the

[17:57] label that the IRS send you. The tax men

[18:00] deny it, but many tax preparers feel the

[18:03] numbers on that label could be coded and

[18:05] might set off an audit. Ray Brady, CBS

[18:09] News, the money crunch.

[18:12] >> Still to come on the CBS Evening News,

[18:14] thousands of dying birds. Has something

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[20:08] Tonight's Eye on America is about a new

[20:10] approach to an old and very common

[20:12] problem. One out of six couples who want

[20:15] to have children need help. Health

[20:17] correspondent Edie Magnus reports on a

[20:19] new program aimed at making the couples

[20:21] relax at the most stressful time of

[20:24] their lives.

[20:25] >> Everything was the worst time of my

[20:27] life.

[20:27] >> Every month it gets worse. You have this

[20:29] cycle of uh of hope followed by

[20:32] disappointment followed by hope followed

[20:33] by disappointment. Cheryl and David

[20:35] Kaiser are describing the rhythm of

[20:37] despair. A rhythm well known to any

[20:40] couple desperate to have a child.

[20:42] >> It's the kind of pain that um

[20:45] accumulates. It doesn't get easier.

[20:48] >> And actually convinced myself that I was

[20:49] going to have a miserable life without

[20:51] children.

[20:52] >> After 2 and 1/2 years of grueling

[20:54] infertility treatment, Cheryl and David

[20:56] were reaching an emotional crisis point.

[20:58] So they decided to take a breather.

[21:00] >> I said, "I'm going to take this 12week

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[21:03] trying to conceive. I'm not going to

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[21:06] uh temperature charts. When I left the

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[21:11] pregnant. About a third of the patients

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[21:15] within 6 months of starting the program.

[21:17] And we don't know why this is happening.

[21:19] Breathing in peace and calm.

[21:22] >> The course at Boston's Beaconist

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[21:26] for Infertility. It's a support group

[21:28] which offers training in the one area

[21:30] that's all but obliterated from their

[21:32] lives. Relaxation.

[21:34] >> Your blood pressure decreases, your rate

[21:35] of breathing decreases, you're in a

[21:37] different physical state, and sometimes

[21:39] you get pregnant. You may. Yeah. We

[21:42] don't know if there's a relationship or

[21:44] not. There's no scientific evidence that

[21:47] stress causes infertility or that

[21:49] reducing stress by methods such as going

[21:51] to a support group can cause anyone to

[21:53] conceive. But researchers who are just

[21:56] now starting to examine the connection

[21:58] say the numbers are intriguing.

[22:00] Fertility specialist Dr. Ronald Burke

[22:02] studied 102 couples, all of whom were

[22:05] undergoing various medical infertility

[22:07] treatments.

[22:08] >> 70 some odd percent of patients

[22:11] attending a support group achieved a

[22:13] pregnancy. Whereas less than 30% of

[22:17] those couples who did not achieve attend

[22:20] the support group achieved the

[22:21] pregnancy. list everything in your life

[22:24] that brings you joy. How could a support

[22:26] group make the difference where now

[22:27] there are only theories that perhaps

[22:30] stress and the loss of control couples

[22:32] experience when they can't produce a

[22:33] child is a more powerful force than

[22:35] anyone realizes and that through the

[22:38] process of sharing of letting go,

[22:40] couples can get that control back.

[22:42] patients who seemed more in control of

[22:46] their lives were more likely to achieve

[22:48] a pregnancy than those patients who had

[22:51] less who felt less control.

[22:53] >> One of the things that the course taught

[22:54] it was just instead of trying to make it

[22:56] happen, let's just let it happen.

[22:59] >> What happened to Cheryl and David was

[23:01] they had a son, now two and a half. But

[23:03] experts caution that the Kaiser story

[23:05] should not be seen as a reason to give

[23:07] up on medical treatments for

[23:08] infertility. Support without technology

[23:11] is not going to bring about optimal

[23:13] success rate and technology without

[23:15] psychological support is not going to

[23:18] bring about optimal success rate.

[23:20] >> And as Barbara Wanitis understands

[23:22] better than anyone, even the combination

[23:24] offers no guarantees. She took the

[23:27] mindbody course too along with in vitro

[23:29] fertilization, but she did not get

[23:31] pregnant.

[23:32] >> I didn't really have any expectations

[23:34] and they weren't given to me that it

[23:35] would increase chances for pregnancy. In

[23:38] fact, some of the people in the support

[23:40] group did get pregnant, and that was

[23:41] wonderful, but it wasn't really the

[23:44] primary goal.

[23:45] >> Barbara and her husband, Peter credit

[23:47] support groups with helping them reach

[23:49] the decision to adopt their son, Chris,

[23:51] and helping them gain appreciation for

[23:54] parenting.

[23:56] >> We have a special joy of having it all

[23:59] work out. It just took a little extra

[24:02] time. The Kaisers are trying again to

[24:04] conceive and Cheryl is again going

[24:06] through infertility treatment, but she's

[24:08] taking that relaxation course again,

[24:10] too. They are now confirmed believers

[24:13] that every little bit helped.

[24:15] >> Thank you.

[24:16] >> Whether it was or wasn't true that the

[24:17] course can helped me. It made me It made

[24:20] me believe that it did.

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[26:58] On the shores of California's largest

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[27:05] Already more than 120,000 of these tiny

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[28:07] >> If it's a selenium problem, water

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[28:11] other birds also uh having the same

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[28:18] >> The Sultan Sea is a desert oasis for

[28:20] thousands of migratory birds, some of

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