CBS Evening News - 1992-08-10

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[0:03] The George Bush Saddam Hussein

[0:05] relationship before the Gulf War. The

[0:08] attorney general decides whether to name

[0:10] a special prosecutor. In the Balkans,

[0:13] new fighting and the US spearheads an

[0:15] agreement to use force for humanitarian

[0:18] relief only. And eye on America.

[0:21] Tonight, a follow-up to the tail hook

[0:23] scandal. You can train them to be

[0:25] officers, but can you teach them to be

[0:27] gentlemen?

[0:29] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:38] Dan Rather reporting. Good evening. One

[0:40] week from today, the Republican National

[0:42] Convention opens in Houston. It was

[0:44] supposed to be a celebration for a

[0:46] shoein incumbent president, but more

[0:49] obstacles appeared today. The new

[0:52] obstacles range from the president's

[0:54] stand on abortion to taxes from death

[0:56] camps in Yugoslavia to lingering

[0:58] questions about possible secret help

[1:00] given to Saddam before the war with

[1:02] Iraq. We begin our coverage with law

[1:04] correspondent Rita Braver in Washington.

[1:07] >> Did the Bush administration illegally

[1:09] help Saddam Hussein arm Iraq in the

[1:12] months before he invaded Kuwait? And

[1:14] then did the administration try to cover

[1:17] up the fact that American soldiers were

[1:19] sent to fight in Iraq strengthened by

[1:21] the US government. House Democrats

[1:24] demanded an independent council to

[1:26] investigate those questions. But today,

[1:28] the Justice Department refused to

[1:30] appoint one. Attorney General William

[1:32] Bar claiming there is no specific and

[1:35] credible information that any crime was

[1:37] committed.

[1:38] >> It's stonewalling, plain and simple. And

[1:41] it leaves all of us as American citizens

[1:44] with one overriding question. What is

[1:46] the administration trying to hide in the

[1:49] record of its assistance to Saddam

[1:51] Hussein?

[1:52] >> An independent council investigation

[1:54] would have focused on whether

[1:56] administration officials knowingly

[1:57] allowed Iraq to buy high-tech equipment

[2:00] from the US and to use American

[2:02] financial aid for military purposes.

[2:05] whether after the war with Iraq,

[2:07] administration officials falsified

[2:09] documents and lied to Congress about

[2:11] their earlier help for Iraq and whether

[2:13] the White House interfered with the

[2:15] federal investigation into Iraq's

[2:17] possible misuse of American loan money

[2:19] to buy weapons instead of food.

[2:22] Republicans claimed that Democrats were

[2:23] on a witch hunt.

[2:24] >> I've heard some rather uh free charges

[2:27] being leveled out there without

[2:29] substantiation. And I think, you know,

[2:31] in a political year, people can accuse

[2:35] any number of people for doing any

[2:36] number of things.

[2:38] >> But Democrats say it's the Justice

[2:39] Department that's playing politics.

[2:41] >> When the attorney general is appointed

[2:43] by the president and the president's

[2:46] political life is hanging by a hair, how

[2:48] can anyone be expected to make an

[2:51] impartial decision? Congress will

[2:54] continue its own investigation and

[2:56] Democrats say they'll take their case to

[2:58] the American people trying to show that

[3:01] actions by the Bush administration made

[3:03] life tougher for American troops in

[3:06] Desert Storm. Rita Braver, CBS News,

[3:09] Washington.

[3:10] >> As for President Bush's position on

[3:12] abortion, there's more evidence today

[3:14] that this could be a sore point at the

[3:16] party's convention and with a lot of

[3:18] voters on election day. Bruce Morton has

[3:20] more on that.

[3:22] Once again, I bring my white hat just to

[3:24] remind people we are the good guys with

[3:25] the white hats.

[3:26] >> Annne Stone brought her abortion rights

[3:28] caravan to Houston today. They'd drawn

[3:30] sparse crowds on the road from

[3:31] Washington and were outnumbered here,

[3:33] too. Not necessarily on the street.

[3:36] >> Lord, save unborn children. We pray for

[3:39] righteousness here in the state of

[3:40] Texas.

[3:42] >> On the street, Operation Rescue

[3:44] demonstrators tore up an injunction

[3:45] limiting how close to an abortion clinic

[3:47] they could demonstrate. But at this

[3:49] clinic, the abortion rights activists

[3:50] had the horses. WHAT DO WE WANT?

[3:53] >> WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

[3:54] >> NOW.

[3:55] >> IN THE platform committee hearing rooms

[3:57] though, the anti-abortion forces had the

[3:59] votes. Abortion rights leaders claimed

[4:01] intimidation

[4:02] >> because of the heavy hand in this. The

[4:04] intimidation is so intense. It the the

[4:08] there is a real sense of fear.

[4:10] >> But one abortion rights dele on the

[4:12] platform committee dealing with abortion

[4:14] said she wasn't intimidated and there

[4:16] was some subcommittee debate. We want to

[4:18] support an ideal, but the realities of

[4:21] life sometimes are very ugly

[4:23] and we're not addressing it any way.

[4:25] We're glossing over it.

[4:27] >> No matter how horrible the circumstances

[4:29] of the pregnancy, that human life ought

[4:32] to outweigh those other considerations.

[4:34] >> But the subcommittee voted for language

[4:36] much like the 1988 platform, a

[4:38] constitutional amendment to ban

[4:40] abortion, nomination of anti-abortion

[4:42] judges.

[4:43] >> All in favor of a motion. There is the

[4:45] certain group of pro-abortion

[4:48] um rich Republican women uh who are

[4:51] pushing this issue, but they just u they

[4:55] don't have the votes. I mean,

[4:56] >> she may be right, though. The fight will

[4:58] go to the full platform committee, maybe

[5:00] to the convention floor.

[5:01] >> The economic subcommittee pulled a

[5:03] surprise, voting to put the party on

[5:04] record in favor of repealing the 1990

[5:07] tax increase, the one that got so many

[5:09] Republicans mad at President Bush. The

[5:12] White House apparently approved to the

[5:13] move. Bruce Morton, CBS News, Houston.

[5:17] >> On another front, the issue of negative

[5:19] campaigning. President Bush has been

[5:21] forced onto the defensive again during

[5:22] the past 72 hours when one of his

[5:25] campaign aids was asked about harsh

[5:28] personal criticism of Governor Bill

[5:30] Clinton. She said she had not apologized

[5:32] for it and indeed the president had

[5:34] praised her. The president then repeated

[5:36] his support for deputy campaign manager

[5:39] Mary Maline and said this about her

[5:41] tactics

[5:43] for nine months. The other side has been

[5:46] hammering me. We are we put one foot toe

[5:49] in the water uh to fight back and they

[5:52] start yelling negative campaigning. We

[5:54] are going to hit him hard legitimately

[5:57] on issue differences and on their record

[6:00] and that's going to happen and we got a

[6:03] very good bulldog doing that in Mary

[6:05] Meline and she's going to keep doing it.

[6:07] There was one little error in that

[6:08] because of interpretation where we got

[6:11] across the cross the line that I don't

[6:13] want to cross and that is uh what an

[6:15] area that I would term as a sleas area

[6:17] error. She understands it and that's not

[6:18] going to happen again. Sources close to

[6:20] the president tell CBS News that one

[6:22] reason the president is being sensitive,

[6:25] as they put it, about negative

[6:26] campaigning is more practical than

[6:28] anything else. According to these

[6:30] sources, Mr. Bush is worried about

[6:32] reports that the Clinton campaign may

[6:34] begin attacking questionable business

[6:36] deals made by Bush's children and that

[6:39] the president doesn't want to do or be

[6:41] seen doing anything that would encourage

[6:44] such attacks. Another dilemma facing

[6:46] President Bush is what to do about the

[6:48] fighting in Bosnia. He moved closer

[6:50] today to backing some military

[6:53] intervention for humanitarian purposes.

[6:55] David Martin reports.

[6:58] It was safe enough in Sievo today to

[7:00] draw water and bury the dead. And the

[7:02] on-again off-again relief flights are on

[7:04] again at the Sievo airport. But at the

[7:07] United Nations, the US and its allies

[7:09] have agreed on a resolution that goes

[7:10] far beyond Sievo and far beyond unarmed

[7:14] transport planes. The resolution

[7:16] expected to be taken up by the Security

[7:17] Council on Wednesday, would authorize

[7:20] the use of force to deliver humanitarian

[7:22] relief wherever needed in Bosnia. There

[7:25] is uh in the resolution on the delivery

[7:27] of humanitarian supplies, there is a

[7:29] provision which would make uh which

[7:33] would make possible the delivery of

[7:36] medicine and uh food supplies uh to all

[7:39] the camps. Depending on whose numbers

[7:41] you believe, there are anywhere from a

[7:43] dozen to a hundred of these so-called

[7:44] detention centers in Bosnia. The local

[7:47] Serbian forces have now promised in

[7:49] writing to permit the International

[7:50] Committee of the Red Cross to inspect

[7:52] their camps. But the Bosnian Serbs claim

[7:55] that they will make it possible for the

[7:56] ICRC to visit Omar, one of the camps

[7:59] where abuses have been reported.

[8:02] >> The former commander of UN peacekeepers

[8:04] in Bosnia met today with Defense

[8:05] Secretary Cheney and Joint Chief's

[8:07] Chairman Powell. And NATO began drawing

[8:10] up contingency plans for using military

[8:12] force to deliver relief supplies.

[8:14] Everyone agrees supplies must get

[8:16] through, but no one wants to commit

[8:18] their soldiers to the mission. One

[8:20] senior US general said the Bush

[8:22] administration's rush to do something in

[8:24] Yugoslavia is being fueled by the need

[8:26] to keep Bill Clinton from seizing the

[8:27] high ground on this issue. From a

[8:30] military point of view, this general

[8:31] said, "I can't give the president high

[8:33] odds we can succeed at any of this."

[8:36] David Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon.

[8:38] Still to come on tonight's CBS Evening

[8:40] News, the Los Angeles police and the

[8:42] Rodney King beating case now fighting

[8:44] federal charges. And public housing

[8:47] projects falling apart while federal

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[9:59] Four Los Angeles police officers accused

[10:02] in the Rodney King beating case pleaded

[10:04] not guilty today, this time to federal

[10:06] charges. Bill Lagatuda reports on the

[10:08] strategy and stakes of reopening the

[10:11] case and the city's wounds.

[10:14] As the four accused officers went into

[10:16] federal court and pleaded not guilty to

[10:18] violating Rodney King's civil rights,

[10:21] one of the defense attorneys raised an

[10:23] issue many in LA have been worried

[10:25] about. I don't think we can get a fair

[10:27] trial because each juror is like putting

[10:29] dynamite in their home and saying, "If

[10:31] you vote not guilty, we're going to blow

[10:32] up your house."

[10:34] >> But the federal government is promising

[10:35] a brand new, much stronger case, though

[10:38] it would not comment on any possible new

[10:40] evidence. Legal experts said today,

[10:42] "Whatever the tactic, the jury will

[10:45] again have to act on instinct. But

[10:47] ultimately, they have to guess what was

[10:49] in the officer's minds in this case. I

[10:52] mean, any way you cut it, 12 jurors are

[10:54] going to have to speculate based on the

[10:57] facts what the intent of these officers

[11:00] was. Bottom line,

[11:02] >> the defense may ask for a change of

[11:04] venue again, though the government says

[11:06] it can find a more racially balanced

[11:08] jury. In Ventura County, where the state

[11:10] case was tried, blacks make up less than

[11:12] 2% of the population. But while the

[11:15] federal court draws jurors from seven

[11:17] counties and 16 million people, less

[11:20] than 4% are black, raising the prospect

[11:22] of another nearly all white panel.

[11:25] >> Can we Can we all get along?

[11:27] >> One difference in the two trials will be

[11:29] the almost certain testimony of Rodney

[11:31] King himself.

[11:33] >> He's going to be finally at last given

[11:35] an opportunity to come forward and and

[11:37] reveal what it was like to be on the

[11:39] ground getting clubbed and kicked and

[11:40] stomped. But there are those who feel

[11:42] King, hardly a model citizen, might do

[11:45] more to help the defense. Today, one of

[11:47] the officers implied the jury will be as

[11:50] afraid of King as he was that night.

[11:52] >> I think they need to see him and they

[11:54] need to hear what he has to say and and

[11:56] I think that's what everybody's waiting

[11:58] for. So, I think he should come.

[12:00] >> One other difference, the government

[12:02] will rely far less on what was once

[12:04] thought to be an incontrovertible piece

[12:06] of evidence, the videotape. Many legal

[12:08] experts believe it's been shown so many

[12:10] times it's lost some of its

[12:13] effectiveness. Bill Agatudo, CBS News,

[12:16] Los Angeles. Stay here with us now for

[12:18] more CBS News, including a report on

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[12:22] an unsettling era under new Israeli

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[14:08] Wednesday.

[14:11] Muslim fundamentalist rebels in

[14:12] Afghanistan have gone on a new offensive

[14:14] bombarding Kbble with hundreds of

[14:16] rockets. Reports today said at least

[14:19] 1,000 people were killed or wounded.

[14:21] President Bush said the welcome mat was

[14:23] out at his vacation home in Maine as he

[14:26] opened talks with new Israeli Prime

[14:27] Minister Rabbine. Mr. Bush is expected

[14:30] to agree to Israel's long-standing

[14:32] request for loan guarantees to help

[14:34] settle immigrants. Rabbine helped clear

[14:36] the way for those loan guarantees by

[14:38] promising to curb some Israeli

[14:40] settlements in the occupied territories.

[14:42] That has set off a struggle between the

[14:44] new government and Jewish settlers.

[14:46] Jesse Schulman reports.

[14:50] >> Jewish settlers were busy expanding

[14:51] their colony in the Muslim quarter of

[14:53] Jerusalem's old city today. They started

[14:56] their move last night, insisting Jews

[14:58] have the right to live wherever they

[15:00] please and pledging that many more would

[15:02] follow. It was the latest event in an

[15:04] orchestrated PR campaign designed to

[15:07] embarrass Prime Minister Rabine as he

[15:09] meets President Bush and to pressure him

[15:11] to resume unrestricted Jewish settlement

[15:13] in the occupied territories. On

[15:15] Thursday, right-wing opposition leaders

[15:17] rallied their supporters in Jerusalem

[15:19] and accused Rabbine of selling Israel's

[15:22] birthright to the US in return for the

[15:24] loan guarantees. On Sunday, settlers

[15:27] called camera crews to film them

[15:28] erecting illegally the crude foundation

[15:31] of a house on the West Bank. But away

[15:33] from the spotlight, it's the settlers

[15:35] who are under pressure. They used to

[15:36] have friends in high places who funded

[15:38] and protected them. Now they're on their

[15:41] own. In October, Jewish families moved

[15:44] into the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in

[15:46] Jerusalem with the full backing of the

[15:48] government of then Prime Minister

[15:49] Shamir. Rya Cohen lives here with her

[15:52] husband. She knows they have few friends

[15:54] in the new government.

[15:55] >> We believe in something and will

[15:57] continue doing the same thing we believe

[15:59] in, even though it will be a bit harder.

[16:02] >> For many Israelis, the occupied

[16:04] territories were a bargain ticket to a

[16:06] comfortable life, not a nationalist

[16:08] adventure. The tax breaks, the cheap

[16:10] mortgages, and other incentives are now

[16:13] being rolled back. Road construction has

[16:15] been halted, and these hilltop housing

[16:17] tracks may never become living

[16:19] neighborhoods. Even the men building

[16:21] these houses have their doubts.

[16:23] >> I know I could live uh live out here

[16:24] cheaper than where I'm living in

[16:26] Jerusalem.

[16:27] There's nothing out here. It's, you

[16:30] know,

[16:30] >> the settlers say Rabbine's plans will

[16:33] bring a Palestinian state into being and

[16:35] put Israel in mortal danger. But Rabbine

[16:38] is calculating that US support is

[16:40] essential and the dream of making the

[16:42] occupied territories Jewish forever is

[16:44] not. Jesse Schulman, CBS News on the

[16:48] occupied West Bank. Still to come, more

[16:50] CBS news, including Eye on America.

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[18:07] >> No, I'll only use the bag my mother

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[18:43] >> The Queen Elizabeth 2 limped into Boston

[18:45] today. A port of call that was not on

[18:47] its shipyard workers will repair a 74 ft

[18:50] gash in the British liner hull. The QE2

[18:54] ran a ground last Friday off

[18:55] Massachusetts. No one was hurt, but more

[18:57] than 1,800 passengers had to be fed

[18:59] ashore. A new report tonight warns about

[19:02] America's public housing for the poor

[19:04] and lack of same. The government has

[19:06] failed to spend millions earmarked for

[19:09] needed repairs. And for more and more

[19:11] people who live in housing projects,

[19:13] it's no place to call home. Scott P has

[19:16] a case in point.

[19:18] >> On a street named Desire, New Orleans

[19:21] public housing crumbles.

[19:23] >> Jesus have mercy.

[19:25] >> How many of your apartments look like

[19:27] this?

[19:28] >> Over um half of them. Over. Probably

[19:32] about a thousand.

[19:33] >> Deborah Davis watches her neighborhood

[19:35] fall to decay and danger. She fell over

[19:38] in it and it was a day or so when we

[19:40] found her. Her name was Hattie Get.

[19:42] >> She drowned in the pool.

[19:45] >> The Desire housing development is part

[19:47] of what is being called a national

[19:49] disgrace. Across America, public housing

[19:52] is in ruins. Even though millions in

[19:55] federal housing money is just sitting in

[19:57] Washington unspent, the blame lies with

[20:00] local housing authorities that the feds

[20:02] believe are too inept to spend the money

[20:04] wisely. Typically, the boards are

[20:07] appointed by mayors or city councils.

[20:09] The idea is to keep the control local

[20:12] and eliminate waste and fraud as much as

[20:14] possible. But critics charge too often

[20:17] these local boards are simply

[20:19] incompetent. I just think there are some

[20:21] people that think [ __ ] are too dumb to

[20:23] run this house.

[20:24] >> The New Orleans board with its chairman

[20:26] who fancied baseball uniforms failed to

[20:29] spend more than $60 million it was

[20:32] entitled to. In all, 23 troubled public

[20:35] housing agencies neglected to spend $1.6

[20:39] billion dollar in housing money over the

[20:41] last five years. Today in Washington,

[20:44] the National Commission on Severely

[20:46] Distressed Housing recommended

[20:48] professional help for local authorities

[20:50] that can't seem to get the money to the

[20:52] poor.

[20:53] >> Don't just cut the housing authorities

[20:55] off. Find a way to get that money in

[20:56] through some competent uh personnel. In

[20:59] New Orleans, federal officials forced

[21:01] out the old board.

[21:03] >> What has 15 years of neglect like this

[21:05] done to the people in your neighborhood?

[21:07] >> Scarred them emotionally, brought down

[21:10] their self-esteem.

[21:11] >> At Desire, the failure to spend the

[21:14] money has created a generation lost in

[21:16] the shuffling paper of the bureaucracy.

[21:19] Scott P, CBS News, New Orleans.

[21:32] Every craft single is made from 5 oz of

[21:34] milk. How did they do that?

[21:36] >> Well, first you bite the hole. See? Cuz

[21:39] you got to have a place for the milk to

[21:41] go. Then when it's all filled up, the

[21:44] hole disappears.

[21:48] >> Craft singles are made from 5 oz of

[21:50] milk. That's why they taste better than

[21:52] imitation cheese. Made mostly with oil

[21:54] and water. M. It looks good.

[21:56] >> Milk makes every single craft single

[21:58] taste better. Look for craft light

[22:00] singles, too.

[22:01] >> Doctor,

[22:02] >> is it right for me?

[22:03] >> Habitrol. It's a patch.

[22:05] >> You know the patch.

[22:06] >> Habitrol.

[22:06] >> You know, habitrol.

[22:08] >> It's a patch.

[22:09] >> Habitrol.

[22:10] >> Habitatrol.

[22:10] >> Habitrol nicotine transdermal system.

[22:13] Available by prescription only.

[22:15] >> Thank you, doctor.

[22:46] Working your fingers to the bone? You

[22:48] deserve a fresh lunch. Use Ziplock brand

[22:50] sandwich bags. With the Gripper Zipper

[22:52] tough tiny teeth, you can feel dripping

[22:54] so you know freshness is locked in. M

[22:57] finger sandwiches. There's only one

[23:00] Ziplo.

[23:01] >> I was really downing those tablets.

[23:05] >> Come on, they're not candy.

[23:08] I started to think there was something

[23:10] really wrong with my stomach.

[23:13] Was I relieved when my doctor told me to

[23:15] try a new ant acid tablet? Introducing

[23:18] Myanta tablets. Shown to neutralize more

[23:22] stomach acid than the leading tablet.

[23:25] >> Unbelievable. New Milanta tablets.

[23:29] >> My doctor said my Atlanta.

[23:35] >> The US Navy has been embarrassed by

[23:37] what's called the Tail Hook scandal.

[23:38] Charges of sexual abuse at a Navy Flyers

[23:41] convention and then a cover up by Navy

[23:43] officers. The Navy says it's now trying

[23:45] to attack attitudes behind the incident.

[23:48] But some people doubt the Navy's ability

[23:50] to change its course. Jim Stewart has

[23:52] tonight's Eye on America.

[23:56] N I engine head 23

[23:59] >> ship life Navy life

[24:02] >> is basically made up of men who I think

[24:05] join because that's the life that they

[24:08] want. I'm going to be on this ship. I'm

[24:11] going to do a man's job. I'm going to do

[24:12] a man's work.

[24:15] I'm going to pull into these ports and

[24:17] buy these women or get drunk and get

[24:20] wild. And that's exactly what they do.

[24:22] And that's the way that they make their

[24:24] fantasy come true. Heidi Bala joined the

[24:26] Navy to learn a trade, but ended up

[24:28] deserting her ship after being

[24:30] propositioned, fondled, and having her

[24:32] complaints lost on officers who had

[24:34] other things on their minds.

[24:36] >> I walked up to him um with a table full

[24:38] of his peers, all officers, and I asked

[24:41] him, "Can I get you anything else, sir?"

[24:44] And he just looked at me and his eyes

[24:46] focused on my breasts and he smiled.

[24:52] Sex and sailors have always been part of

[24:54] the Navy's folklore and now are part of

[24:56] its shame. From the debauchery of Tail

[24:58] Hook to the chaining of a female plea at

[25:00] Annapolis to a men's jural, the

[25:02] headlines make it appear the Navy's

[25:04] hormones are out of control. Sexual

[25:06] harassment cases have occurred in all

[25:08] the armed forces and throughout society

[25:10] too for that matter. But the most

[25:12] outrageous always seem to occur in the

[25:14] Navy. Why is a question the service has

[25:16] only recently begun to ask itself.

[25:18] Female on deck.

[25:19] >> Lieutenant Commander Robera Spelain is

[25:21] the second in command of the USS

[25:23] Sylvania. Like many in the Navy, she

[25:26] sees the problem is confined to a

[25:27] handful of men.

[25:29] >> Aviators, divers, SEALs, those types of

[25:33] of communities that um as they say are

[25:36] living on the edge of death all the

[25:38] time. It's almost a frenzy that that was

[25:42] the image that they had to uphold.

[25:46] Officially, the Navy itself portrays it

[25:49] as the problem of a few, but evidence is

[25:51] strong that something is rotten within

[25:53] the institution.

[25:56] For officers, it begins at Annapolis,

[25:58] where female plebes were never welcome.

[26:00] And for the enlisted at boot camp,

[26:02] >> everything was taught sexually. First

[26:05] aid was taught sexually. They would tell

[26:07] sex jokes in all of our classes.

[26:10] Long lonely months at sea filled with

[26:13] hard work, often dangerous training and

[26:15] regimental discipline add to the lore

[26:17] that when a sailor's ashore, anything

[26:20] goes. Our conduct and I have to say I've

[26:22] been there myself was uh was not the

[26:23] best. I mean, a lot of two fisted

[26:25] drinking and uh staying up late and and

[26:28] raising hell. It was kind of you brought

[26:29] up in that whole environment and and you

[26:31] get the you get the picture. It's okay,

[26:33] you know, it's u and and it's not okay.

[26:36] A former officer herself, Carolyn

[26:38] Bcraft, tracks military indiscretions

[26:40] and puts the blame squarely on the

[26:42] services top leadership.

[26:44] >> It is their responsibility. They set the

[26:46] tone and by not acting swiftly, they

[26:49] send mixed signals. The signal they send

[26:51] is, "Well, it's okay. It's not okay."

[26:55] >> The Navy is trying to mend its ways. New

[26:58] public service ads portray family

[26:59] values.

[27:00] >> To imagine, to dream, to grow.

[27:04] >> Next. Grow. Here at group one,

[27:06] >> attendance at sexual awareness courses

[27:08] is mandatory.

[27:09] >> Legitimate grievance and discrimination

[27:10] complaint,

[27:11] >> but the message seems numbingly

[27:13] bureaucratic.

[27:14] >> There'll be no toleration of sexual

[27:16] harassment at any level

[27:18] >> to the point no one seems to care very

[27:20] much.

[27:21] >> How many did actually succeed in in

[27:23] doing this exercise? Anyone? One person.

[27:26] Excellent. So much more weight than the

[27:28] rest of us.

[27:29] >> A feeling of martyrdom has settled over

[27:30] the fleet. Morale is down. Many young

[27:33] officers feel they're the victims of a

[27:35] feminist witch hunt. It's a signal, say

[27:37] some, that the Navy is not only still

[27:39] unsure of its course in this crisis, but

[27:41] still burdened with the sins of the past

[27:44] and still just doesn't get it.

[27:46] >> 105 is next Tom

[27:48] >> in Norfick, Virginia. This is Jim

[27:49] Stewart for Eye on America.

[27:52] >> And that's part of our world tonight.

[27:54] Dan Rather for the CBS Evening News.

[27:56] Thank you for joining us. See you

[27:57] tomorrow. Good night.

[28:29] experience. CBS News.

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[28:39] where did he get his idea for this one?

[28:41] >> I had a fight with my wife.

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[28:45] for the ride if you dare? Eye on America

[28:48] tomorrow on the CBS Evening News with

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