CBS Evening News - 1992-04-01

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[0:02] Bill Clinton attacks President Bush on

[0:04] foreign policy. The president tries to

[0:06] drown Clinton out. To Russia with love.

[0:09] Americans adopting orphaned children. An

[0:12] eye on America. The anti-drug crusader

[0:15] who says the last person police should

[0:17] arrest is the dealer. The very last.

[0:21] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:28] Good evening. I'm Connie Chung in

[0:30] tonight for Dan Rather. George Bush and

[0:32] Bill Clinton battled for the foreign

[0:34] policy spotlight today. The Democratic

[0:36] presidential candidate gave his first

[0:38] major foreign policy speech. The

[0:41] president tried to steal some of

[0:42] Clinton's fun thunder by announcing an

[0:45] aid package for the former Soviet

[0:46] Republics. Richard Thrill begins our

[0:49] coverage with the Clinton campaign.

[0:52] >> It was Bill Clinton's first chance in

[0:54] two difficult weeks to look and sound

[0:56] like the front runner. a speech in New

[0:58] York on foreign affairs. He said the

[1:00] president's foreign policy lacks

[1:02] direction.

[1:03] >> George Bush has invoked a new world

[1:05] order without inunciating a new American

[1:08] purpose.

[1:09] >> Clinton supported the president's Soviet

[1:11] aid initiative, but said it was too slow

[1:13] in coming, and he criticized the

[1:15] administration's Middle East policy.

[1:17] >> They have chosen to browbe Israel, the

[1:19] region sold democracy, while nurturing

[1:22] ties to Syria's despotic regime. This

[1:24] audience at least was friendly. But

[1:26] unhappily for Clinton, he still has

[1:28] another week of this to endure. The

[1:31] >> Democrats have no platform against

[1:33] pornography.

[1:34] >> It's the hazing that New Yorkers love to

[1:36] inflict on the presidential candidates,

[1:38] especially front runners before every

[1:40] primary.

[1:41] >> What? Answer the play. Why can't you

[1:43] answer?

[1:44] >> And not just on the sidewalks of New

[1:46] York. Clinton got a real grilling on the

[1:48] character issue during the Donna TV show

[1:51] today. Clinton gave as good as he got

[1:54] until the audience had had enough.

[1:56] >> Given the sort of pathetic state of most

[1:58] of the United States at this point,

[2:00] Medicare, education, everything else, I

[2:01] can believe you spent half an hour of

[2:03] air time attacking this man's character.

[2:04] I'm not I'm not even a Bill Clinton

[2:06] supporter.

[2:07] >> Jerry Brown, who trounced Clinton in

[2:09] last night's Vermont caucuses, toured

[2:12] Manhattan today with Jesse Jackson.

[2:14] Although a new state poll has Clinton

[2:16] ahead, Brown still has a chance to win

[2:18] this primary. He's sticking to

[2:20] breadandbut issues and says Clinton

[2:22] should too.

[2:23] >> He's going to give a foreign policy

[2:24] speech today. I want to hear him tell

[2:26] honestly what he's going to do for the

[2:28] city of New York, for the people of this

[2:30] state and the people of America.

[2:32] >> Meanwhile, while visiting the White

[2:34] House today, Jimmy Carter criticized

[2:36] Brown for being too negative, endorsed

[2:38] Clinton, and mused about the Democrats

[2:41] habit of climbing off bandwagons instead

[2:43] of onto them. Democratic voters have a

[2:45] tendency to want to knock off the leader

[2:47] in order to keep the election going. And

[2:50] I think that's what h what's happening

[2:51] now.

[2:52] >> This was a good day for Bill Clinton,

[2:53] but he's had to dig deep into his

[2:55] campaign kitty to try to win New York.

[2:58] If he loses and contributors decide his

[3:00] is a losing cause, he could run into

[3:02] some real money problems. And there are

[3:04] lots of big primaries yet to come.

[3:06] Richard Feld, CBS News, New York. It was

[3:09] no coincidence that President Bush

[3:11] scheduled a news conference for the same

[3:13] time as the Clinton speech. Mr. Bush

[3:15] announced a long- aaited multinational

[3:17] aid program for Russia and the other

[3:19] former Soviet republics. We have that

[3:21] part of the story from Susan Spencer at

[3:23] the White House. For President Bush, the

[3:26] multi-billion dollar aid package is a

[3:28] way to help the republics. For candidate

[3:30] Bush, a way to play his foreign policy

[3:33] cards again. We have a major stake in

[3:36] the success of democracy uh in Russia

[3:40] and in these other other states. The

[3:42] cost of doing nothing uh

[3:45] could be exorbitant.

[3:47] >> Critics, especially ex-president Nixon,

[3:49] have been yelling that for weeks. But as

[3:52] long as Pat Buchanan was blasting him on

[3:54] foreign aid, you did not hear George

[3:55] Bush pleading for more help for the

[3:57] republics. Now, with Buchanan dormant

[4:00] and Bill Clinton delivering a big

[4:02] foreign policy speech, well, what better

[4:04] day than this?

[4:05] >> So, this isn't any Johnny come lately

[4:07] thing, and this isn't driven by election

[4:09] year pressures.

[4:10] >> It's what's right for the United States.

[4:12] The plan includes US contributions to a

[4:15] $ 24 billion multinational fund, part to

[4:18] stabilize the ruble, part to restructure

[4:21] the republic's economies, a 12 billion

[4:24] increase in US commitments for loans,

[4:27] and just over a billion dollars in

[4:29] indirect farm aid. Total tab this year

[4:32] to help the republics is expected to be

[4:34] about $4.5 billion. But given Americans

[4:37] dislike of foreign aid, officials were

[4:39] obscure about specifics. Obviously,

[4:42] there is a cost and it is real money. It

[4:46] is not funny money. So, but but I I'm

[4:50] not I don't think Secretary of the

[4:51] Treasury can put a number on it.

[4:53] >> Even with the price tag smudged, this

[4:56] will be a hard sell in an election year.

[4:58] >> We do have to stop the politics on this

[5:00] one. We have to talk about this doing

[5:03] this together. This investment and an

[5:06] opportunity that we can't afford to pass

[5:09] up. Otherwise, the cry would be who lost

[5:11] Russia?

[5:12] >> The White House strategy will be to sell

[5:14] help to the republics, not as foreign

[5:16] aid, but as a lofty guarantee of world

[5:19] peace, leaving voters with the

[5:20] impression that it will cost practically

[5:23] nothing. Susan Spencer, CBS News, the

[5:26] White House.

[5:27] >> Some individual Americans are way out in

[5:30] front of the government in finding ways

[5:31] to help Russia. Jonathan Sanders has the

[5:34] story of one American family and one

[5:36] Russian child.

[5:38] Bennett Katie is traveling half a day

[5:40] from Moscow, half a world from her

[5:42] Virginia home and husband to adopt a

[5:45] Russian child.

[5:46] >> The last message was, "Hang in there.

[5:49] Get the baby. Come home safely. We all

[5:51] miss you."

[5:52] >> Her new child is waiting in an orphanage

[5:54] deep in the Russian heartland.

[5:58] >> The baby's name is Anna.

[6:01] >> Together, they are pioneers. One of the

[6:04] first adoptions by an American in the

[6:06] former Soviet Union. Until recently, it

[6:10] was illegal.

[6:10] >> Are you going to go home? You're going

[6:12] home with me to America?

[6:14] >> But economic hard times mean hardly any

[6:17] Russians can afford to adopt. Across

[6:19] Russia, upwards of a million orphans are

[6:22] in state institutions.

[6:25] >> "We can't promise all of our children a

[6:27] good childhood," says the orphanages

[6:29] doctor. Anya is one child who won't live

[6:32] in a barracks.

[6:34] Russia still does not permit foreigners

[6:36] to adopt perfectly healthy babies. Anya,

[6:38] for example, had a mild birth defect.

[6:40] But that isn't stopping Americans from

[6:42] looking to Russia for children.

[6:45] >> Good afternoon, Hope.

[6:47] >> This Washington adoption agency is one

[6:49] of the gobetweens. There is no shortage

[6:51] of couples willing to spend the

[6:53] thousands of dollars an adoption can

[6:55] cost. And

[6:56] >> we have in the next couple of weekends

[6:58] two or three families going each

[6:59] weekend. So, it's going very well.

[7:03] But Russian officials are cautious.

[7:05] Betty Katy had to prove to the local

[7:07] government council she and her husband

[7:09] are worthy of Ana.

[7:12] >> What about her heritage? They wanted to

[7:14] know.

[7:15] >> When she is older and wants to come to

[7:17] Russia to see her homeland, see her

[7:19] motherland where she came from.

[7:20] Certainly we'll come as a family.

[7:23] >> Satisfied, the council approved.

[7:26] >> Don't forget us, they said at the

[7:28] orphanage. Invite us to celebrate your

[7:30] wedding.

[7:32] For an expectant father in Washington,

[7:34] the celebration had just begun. She is

[7:37] so beautiful.

[7:39] >> Jonathan Sanders, CBS News, Pir Boy,

[7:42] Russia.

[7:44] >> Welcome to America.

[7:47] >> Thanks, Daddy.

[7:48] >> Daddy.

[7:50] >> Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[7:52] News, closing arguments in the trial of

[7:54] Manuel Noriega

[7:56] and tough new tactics in the Holy Land.

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[9:06] The State Department Inspector General

[9:08] is recommending disciplinary measures

[9:10] against officials responsible for

[9:12] keeping track of US weapons exports. The

[9:15] statement today doesn't specify any

[9:17] countries, but it follows reports that

[9:19] Israel transferred US technology to

[9:21] third countries, including China and

[9:23] South Africa. Israel has denied the

[9:25] charges.

[9:27] Israeli troops opened fire in a

[9:28] Palestinian refugee camp today, killing

[9:30] four Arabs and wounding more than 50.

[9:33] Israel said the trouble began when

[9:34] someone threw a grenade at an army post

[9:36] in the Gaza Strip. It was the bloodiest

[9:39] battle in three years in the occupied

[9:41] territories and part of a new phase in

[9:43] the Arab uprising. Bob Simon reports

[9:45] from the occupied West Bank.

[9:48] >> Rocks have become rifles, stones,

[9:51] submachine guns. The symbols of the

[9:53] interif have changed. The nature of the

[9:56] Palestinian revolt has undergone a

[9:58] revolution. Very few mass demonstrations

[10:01] these days. Few strikes, little civil

[10:03] disobedience, more masked men with

[10:06] weapons. The Israelis have changed their

[10:08] tactics, too. Fewer curfews, less

[10:11] collective punishment, fewer troops. The

[10:14] command has turned towards

[10:15] counterinsurgency warfare and has

[10:17] relaxed its rules on when soldiers can

[10:20] open fire.

[10:22] This is the new phase of the inifata.

[10:24] Small bands of armed Palestinians

[10:27] targeted by small units of Israeli

[10:29] soldiers. As preparations are underway

[10:31] for another round of peace talks, the

[10:33] situation on the ground is getting more

[10:35] deadly all the time. The bloodiest

[10:38] battleground is the town of Janine. And

[10:40] the most wanted man on the West Bank is

[10:42] 30-year-old Ahmed Awad Pomel, who the

[10:45] Israelis say murdered 30 Palestinians

[10:48] over the last 18 months. He leads the

[10:50] Black Panthers, one of the many

[10:52] color-coded gangs here, who define their

[10:55] mission as killing not only Israelis,

[10:57] but all Palestinians who collaborate

[10:59] with them. As they try to resemble an

[11:01] army as they put on uniforms, the

[11:04] Israelis are taking theirs off, relying

[11:06] on undercover units, which disguise

[11:08] themselves as Palestinians and look for

[11:10] wanted men. In this operation filmed by

[11:13] the army, the men with Arab headdress

[11:16] are Israeli commandos. Their target is

[11:18] the man leaning against the car.

[11:22] >> There are several of these operations

[11:23] every day. This Palestinian from Janine

[11:26] was shot three times by Israelis dressed

[11:28] as Arab women. What have these units

[11:31] accomplished? Aside from capturing and

[11:33] killing and keeping the gangs on the

[11:35] run. They have shown suspicion

[11:37] throughout every town and village in the

[11:39] occupied territories.

[11:41] >> Anyone who crosses the sea feels that

[11:44] many eyes are watching him. But whose

[11:47] eyes?

[11:49] >> It is a new game on the West Bank

[11:51] governed by the oldest rule of the

[11:53] Middle East. When there is the faintest

[11:55] whisper of peace in the air, more people

[11:58] are going to die. Bob Simon, CBS News,

[12:02] Geneva.

[12:04] >> The first worldwide study of women in

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[12:08] The UN report predicts that the number

[12:10] of women dying from tobacco use will

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[12:15] more than a million a year. In this

[12:17] country, the UN says so many young women

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[12:21] smokers may soon outnumber male smokers.

[12:26] >> Now from around the world, more CBS

[12:28] news. Hecklers threw eggs at British

[12:30] Prime Minister John Major as he

[12:32] campaigned in the streets trying to come

[12:34] from behind and save his government in

[12:36] next week's election. Polls show the

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[12:40] Conservatives.

[12:42] Princess Diana and Prince Charles led

[12:44] the mourners at the funeral for Diana's

[12:46] father, who died Sunday. The eighth Earl

[12:48] Spencer was 68. A skier was buried by an

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[14:58] In Miami, final arguments today in the

[15:01] drug trafficking trial of ousted

[15:02] Panameanian leader Manuel Noriega. As

[15:04] Juan Vasquez reports, both sides pulled

[15:07] out the stops for their last crack at

[15:09] the jury.

[15:11] >> In a marathon 6-hour closing argument,

[15:13] prosecutor Miles Melman nearly ran out

[15:15] of disparaging adjectives to hurl

[15:17] against Noriega. Deceitful,

[15:19] manipulative, crooked, and corrupt.

[15:21] Prosecutors told the jury that the drug

[15:23] smuggling Medí cartel was comfortable in

[15:26] Norie's Panama because it was their

[15:29] backyard.

[15:30] >> But the government could never place

[15:32] cocaine in Nora's hands, relying on

[15:35] testimony from former drug dealers who

[15:37] claimed Noriega was paid millions of

[15:39] dollars to allow drugs to be shipped to

[15:41] the United States through Panama. Even

[15:44] veteran defense attorneys say Noriega's

[15:46] chances of a quiddle are slim. And it

[15:48] would take strength beyond imagination

[15:51] for them to go into that jury room and

[15:53] let this guy walk out the back door

[15:56] knowing who he is and what the

[15:57] government has done to get him here. But

[16:00] when Norie's flamboyant attorney Frank

[16:02] Rubino got his chance, he hammered the

[16:04] government's case. "This indictment

[16:06] stinks," he told the jury. He said the

[16:09] government made deals with no fewer than

[16:10] 20 convicted drug dealers and

[16:12] moneyaunderers to get Noriega. "The scum

[16:15] of the earth," he called the

[16:16] government's witnesses. They should be

[16:18] in cages. The trial never turned into

[16:21] the political drama the defense had

[16:23] advertised. No testimony from Fidel

[16:25] Castro, with whom Noriega met

[16:27] occasionally, or from George Bush, who

[16:30] headed the CIA when Noriega was on the

[16:32] payroll, and who met with Noriega at

[16:34] least once while vice president.

[16:38] As president, it was Bush who ordered an

[16:40] invasion of Panama to nab Noriega in

[16:43] what was called history's biggest drug

[16:44] bust. After listening to six months of

[16:47] testimony, the jury is expected to begin

[16:49] deliberations tomorrow. If he's

[16:51] convicted, Noriega faces up to 160 years

[16:54] in prison. And for him, any deal is

[16:57] unlikely. Juan Vasquez, CBS News, Miami.

[17:02] >> Stay with us now for more CBS News. Next

[17:04] up, the hockey season is on ice. The

[17:07] players are on strike.

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[18:56] >> Push has come to shove in the United

[18:58] Auto Workers strike against Caterpillar,

[19:00] the company that makes earthmoving

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[19:04] will hire permanent replacements for the

[19:05] 11,000 strikers if they don't return to

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[19:15] >> Pro hockey players today called the

[19:17] first strike in the 75 year history of

[19:19] the National Hockey League. Jacqueline

[19:21] Adams has that story.

[19:25] >> On the ice, professional hockey players

[19:27] are not at all shy about using their

[19:28] fists to settle a disagreement.

[19:32] Their shots have been just as

[19:34] devastating off the ice, battling team

[19:36] owners by the overwhelming vote of

[19:38] 560-4.

[19:40] The players went on strike this

[19:42] afternoon, thereby jeopardizing the

[19:44] start of next week's playoffs, a season

[19:46] that earns big bucks for the owners.

[19:49] >> It's extremely sad. I mean, especially

[19:51] it's coming to playoff time and we

[19:53] should be getting ready for the Stanley

[19:55] Cup and

[19:57] that's what's the most saddest.

[19:59] >> The fans are outraged. Listen, what it

[20:01] all comes down to, I think, is is the

[20:03] money issue.

[20:04] >> I don't think people feel sorry for

[20:05] players that are making an average

[20:07] salary of around $350,000 a year. But in

[20:10] that same note, I don't think people

[20:11] necessarily feel sorry for owners that

[20:13] are some owners that are making several

[20:15] million dollars a year.

[20:17] >> Money is at the heart of the hockey

[20:18] dispute. The players want a more liberal

[20:21] policy on free agency, bigger playoff

[20:23] bonuses, and they've offered to play

[20:25] four additional games to pay for the

[20:28] salary increases. Owners claim they're

[20:30] already losing millions. That's why they

[20:33] want a share of the roughly $16 million

[20:35] the Players Union makes from the

[20:37] licensing of products like hockey cards.

[20:39] >> Well, you can't get away from looking at

[20:43] a $155 million loss over the next two

[20:46] years. Ownership can't stand that.

[20:49] >> The players don't believe that. The

[20:51] owners don't believe what the players

[20:52] are saying about breaking up their

[20:53] union. So, we have the mistrust problem.

[20:55] Once again,

[20:56] >> for all the violence on the ice, hockey

[20:58] strike is shaping up as a somewhat

[21:00] gental affair. Negotiations are

[21:02] continuing. The union has promised no

[21:04] picket lines and out of town players are

[21:07] flying back home with the union picking

[21:09] up the tab. Jacqueline Adams, CBS News,

[21:12] New York.

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[21:31] America. Tonight, how a small town is

[21:33] attacking a big drug problem.

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[23:45] We tend to think of illegal drugs as

[23:47] just a big city problem. They aren't.

[23:49] And we're often told that the way to get

[23:51] rid of drugs is to go after the dealer.

[23:53] Well, there's a man who says that's

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[23:58] Eye on America, reported by Meredith

[24:00] Vieira.

[24:06] Stretched along the banks of the

[24:07] Mississippi with its ruted country roads

[24:10] and crooked train tracks, Greenville is

[24:12] in many ways still the sleepy, friendly

[24:14] Delta town it has always been.

[24:17] >> I love it better than I do any place in

[24:19] the world.

[24:20] >> Savannah Wilson fell in love with

[24:22] Greenville back in 1930, opened this

[24:24] small boarding house, and made a living

[24:26] by renting rooms out to field hands and

[24:29] factory workers. They my neighbors. But

[24:32] as industry abandoned Greenville, drug

[24:34] traffickers moved in. Even a 79year-old

[24:37] grandma knows how the local crack trade

[24:40] works.

[24:41] >> People brings it in and and and hire

[24:45] different fellas that don't have no jobs

[24:48] to distribute it. And they standing on

[24:50] the street in bunches selling dope.

[24:54] >> The children of Greenville know about

[24:56] crack cocaine, too. Six-year-old Arthur

[24:58] drew a picture with a familiar slogan.

[25:01] Say no to drugs.

[25:05] >> But just say no isn't working in

[25:07] Greenville anymore than it is in New

[25:09] York, Chicago, or LA. Greenville's per

[25:12] capita crime rate is now second in the

[25:15] Southeast to Miami.

[25:17] >> The money's good. The money is damn

[25:20] good.

[25:20] >> Tyrie Waters sells cocaine. He's been

[25:23] arrested four times, beginning when he

[25:26] was 9 years old. Only way you'll

[25:28] probably stop me from selling drugs

[25:30] tomorrow if you give me a million

[25:31] dollars.

[25:32] >> From Greenville, Mississippi to New York

[25:34] South Bronx, America has invested

[25:37] millions fighting drug dealers as small

[25:39] time as Tyrie Waters and as big as

[25:41] Emanuel Noriega. But it doesn't seem

[25:44] that we've made much progress. One man

[25:46] who grew up on this New York City street

[25:48] thinks he knows why. He says in part,

[25:51] it's because we've been targeting all

[25:53] the wrong people. We're like morons

[25:56] looking in the wrong direction for the

[25:58] answer to our problem when the answer is

[26:00] right there.

[26:00] >> For 25 years, Mike Lavine worked as a

[26:03] federal drug agent in almost every

[26:05] country where narcotics are produced.

[26:07] During his career, he was responsible

[26:09] for the arrest of thousands of drug

[26:11] dealers. Today, he says it was all a

[26:14] waste of time and money, all a charade

[26:17] by the US government he served.

[26:19] >> We were told drugs are the enemy. It's

[26:22] not a war on drugs. Drugs can't fight.

[26:25] You can't go to war against drugs. I

[26:27] want to show America that they can win a

[26:29] war against a problem, a drug problem.

[26:32] It's done by going right to where the

[26:34] problem is, and that is the guy paying

[26:36] those bucks. And he's the easiest to

[26:38] stop.

[26:39] >> The user.

[26:39] >> The user.

[26:41] >> Kirby Sllayton.

[26:42] >> Welcome to Grand.

[26:43] >> Smalltown cop Kirby Sllayton read one of

[26:45] Lavine's books on fighting back and

[26:47] invited the South Bronx drug agent to

[26:49] the Mississippi Delta.

[26:53] He spent the week talking tough to

[26:55] community leaders and students,

[26:57] explaining how Greenville is going to

[26:59] wipe out its drug problem by taking away

[27:01] the dealer's business, one addict at a

[27:04] time. They're going to buy the dope and

[27:05] they're going to walk away four, five

[27:07] blocks away. They may drive away and

[27:09] suddenly their car is going to be

[27:10] stopped. You want to step out? You want

[27:12] to step out? They want to be arrested.

[27:13] Look like a rock right there. That a

[27:15] rock there, Harvey.

[27:17] >> That looks like a little cocaine, man.

[27:19] You under arrest. We may arrest a 100

[27:23] users, 100 buyers because you're the

[27:25] enemy.

[27:27] >> And then when the drug dealer has no

[27:28] more customers and he's standing outside

[27:30] wondering why business is down, then

[27:33] we're going to arrest him last.

[27:36] >> It will take months before Greenville

[27:37] knows if Mike Lavine's tactics are

[27:39] working. Till then, children will

[27:41] continue to just say no and hope that's

[27:44] enough. And Savannah Wilson will sleep

[27:46] with two guns by her bedside. This is a

[27:49] 38 and this is a 22. I'm afraid to sleep

[27:55] without a gun around me

[27:58] in Greenville, Mississippi. Meredith

[28:00] Fier for Eye on America.

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