NBC Nightly News - 1996-02-13

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[0:01] As the Republicans head from Iowa to New

[0:03] Hampshire, suddenly it's a

[0:04] three-cornered fight.

[0:08] A question of justice. A coed accuses

[0:10] athletes of date rape [music] and

[0:11] accuses college officials of failing

[0:13] their duty.

[0:14] NBC News in depth tonight, high hopes

[0:16] for using pigs as a steady source of

[0:19] human parts.

[0:21] And the Oscar nominations are out. The

[0:23] very expensive hard sell is already

[0:25] underway.

[0:27] >> From NBC News, this is NBC Nightly News

[0:32] with Tom Brokaw.

[0:34] >> Good evening. Bob Dole is too old. Pat

[0:37] Buchanan is too extreme. Lamar Alexander

[0:40] is not what he seems to be.

[0:42] That was the price of victory today for

[0:43] the three Republican presidential

[0:45] candidates who finished 1 2 3 in Iowa.

[0:48] Now, they're turning on each other as

[0:50] the race moves to New Hampshire for next

[0:52] Tuesday's primary. We begin tonight with

[0:54] Dole's problems, even though he did

[0:56] finish first, barely. Here's NBC's Lisa

[0:59] Myers.

[1:01] >> If Senator Bob Dole was disappointed by

[1:03] his anemic victory, he seemed determined

[1:05] not to let it show.

[1:06] >> Let's do what we've been doing.

[1:08] >> In a speech to the New Hampshire

[1:09] legislature, Dole joked about his

[1:11] political meltdown here 8 years ago,

[1:14] when he roared into New Hampshire after

[1:15] a big victory in Iowa, planning to beat

[1:18] George Bush and lock up the nomination.

[1:21] >> I remember my pollster came came in the

[1:23] next morning whistling Hail to the

[1:24] Chief.

[1:26] Made you feel pretty good till after the

[1:28] election.

[1:31] I lost.

[1:33] Haven't seen him since.

[1:36] Didn't feel good. I went home and slept

[1:38] like a baby. Every 2 hours I woke up and

[1:40] cried, but otherwise

[1:42] >> He said this year would be different.

[1:44] >> This time it's going to happen.

[1:46] Something's going to happen that I do

[1:47] like. Is that right?

[1:49] All right.

[1:50] >> [applause]

[1:51] >> But Dole arrived here weaker and more

[1:52] vulnerable than he ever imagined. Three

[1:55] of four voters in Iowa went for someone

[1:57] else. He had hoped to leave Iowa last

[1:59] night with enough momentum to ignite his

[2:01] campaign here. Instead, his staff has

[2:03] spent the last 18 hours retooling. Their

[2:06] first new target, ultra-conservative Pat

[2:08] Buchanan, who favors building a fence

[2:10] along the Mexican border to keep out

[2:12] immigrants and has made derogatory

[2:14] comments in the past about women, Jews,

[2:17] and gays. Today, a Dole spokesman

[2:19] branded Buchanan a hell-raiser and

[2:21] bomb-thrower. A new Dole ad attacking

[2:23] Buchanan will be on the air tomorrow.

[2:25] >> I just think that Pat's rhetoric is

[2:27] fiery and I think you both live and die

[2:30] on that stuff and sometimes it comes

[2:32] back to haunt you.

[2:33] >> But Dole also was looking over his

[2:34] shoulder at Alexander. Tomorrow, New

[2:36] Jersey's popular governor, Christie

[2:38] Whitman, will campaign to help Dole keep

[2:40] moderates and undecided from drifting to

[2:43] Alexander.

[2:44] Dole said today that whoever wins here

[2:46] next Tuesday probably will be the

[2:48] Republican nominee. He stopped short of

[2:50] predicting it would be him. Dole's

[2:53] advisers' worst fear is a replay of the

[2:55] nightmare in New Hampshire eight years

[2:57] ago.

[2:58] Lisa Myers, NBC News, Manchester.

[3:02] >> This is Gwen Ifill in New Hampshire. Pat

[3:04] Buchanan had the kind of night in Iowa

[3:06] that makes candidates dream about the

[3:08] White House.

[3:09] >> And attacks from the right from an

[3:10] energized Pat Buchanan.

[3:12] >> Nurturing his populist image, he flew

[3:14] coach from Iowa to New England today on

[3:17] a commercial connection through Detroit.

[3:19] >> How much do these things cost? These are

[3:20] outstanding.

[3:23] >> But with only 23,000 votes to get a

[3:25] second place finish in Iowa, Buchanan is

[3:27] already talking like the eventual

[3:29] nominee.

[3:30] >> I don't want a closed Republican party.

[3:32] I don't want a country club party.

[3:34] I want a party that represents the broad

[3:36] majority. Some of my colleagues,

[3:39] they don't have any ideas.

[3:41] They don't have a clue as to what's

[3:42] going on out there.

[3:43] >> But before Buchanan's happy feet even

[3:46] touched ground today, one of his

[3:47] opponents was taking dead aim at his

[3:49] plan to slap tariffs on international

[3:51] trade.

[3:52] >> Well, nothing is wrong with Pat. He's

[3:53] energetic, but his message is wrong.

[3:55] America's not going to elect a

[3:57] protectionist president.

[3:58] >> It took just 17,000 votes to save

[4:00] Alexander from political extinction with

[4:02] a third-place finish in Iowa. But Phil

[4:05] Gramm, who started the race with a fat

[4:06] bank account and big plans for the White

[4:08] House, appears poised to withdraw

[4:10] tomorrow. He placed only a weak fifth in

[4:13] Iowa, attracting just 9,000 votes.

[4:16] >> You're asking me if last night was good

[4:18] news for my campaign. Obviously, I'm

[4:20] slow, but I'm not stupid.

[4:22] >> Also missing in action today, Steve

[4:24] Forbes. After spending millions of

[4:26] dollars in advertising and winning only

[4:28] 9,800 votes, he went home to New Jersey

[4:30] for the day.

[4:31] >> And so I think it was a very credible

[4:33] showing. We never expected to do better

[4:35] than fourth. We

[4:36] >> For the record, Steve Forbes was being a

[4:38] lot more optimistic last week.

[4:40] >> Pat Buchanan is hoping for a huge bounce

[4:42] out of a win in Iowa that was based on

[4:44] his appeal to social conservatives. But

[4:46] in New Hampshire, he's going to have to

[4:47] base his appeal to voters who care more

[4:49] about jobs than about abortion.

[4:52] Gwen Ifill, NBC News, Manchester.

[4:56] >> The White House got in the act today,

[4:57] taking notice of the respectable showing

[4:59] of former Tennessee Governor Lamar

[5:00] Alexander, a GOP moderate, a candidate

[5:03] who might be the fresh face that many

[5:05] Republicans think they need against

[5:06] President Clinton come the fall.

[5:08] NBC's Brian Williams is at the White

[5:10] House tonight.

[5:12] >> Of the top three finishers in Iowa, one

[5:14] of them, Lamar Alexander, concerns the

[5:17] White House just enough for them to

[5:19] launch what could be called a preemptive

[5:21] smear campaign.

[5:22] >> I got Alexander. Alexander. Oh, Lamar.

[5:26] >> Lamar.

[5:26] >> Lamar, exclamation point.

[5:28] >> For public consumption, the press

[5:30] secretary jokes about Alexander, acting

[5:32] as if he's a minor player. Privately

[5:34] though, this is what a senior White

[5:36] House official told NBC News. There's

[5:39] all of Lamar's financial problems. He

[5:41] made $620,000

[5:43] on a dollar investment. He's got so many

[5:45] problems, he takes Whitewater off the

[5:47] table.

[5:48] Though the White House wasn't saying,

[5:50] the $620,000 remark apparently refers to

[5:54] Alexander's profit in a stock deal while

[5:56] he was governor of Tennessee. Today,

[5:58] Lamar Alexander responded to the attack

[6:00] from the White House.

[6:01] >> I'm glad to answer the questions. I

[6:03] think if President Clinton had done that

[6:04] himself, he might not be having the

[6:06] troubles he's having today.

[6:08] I'd love to be in a vision contest with

[6:10] Bill Clinton, and I don't think he wants

[6:11] to be in one with me.

[6:13] >> Alexander issued a warning to the White

[6:15] House to stop spreading rumors. He says

[6:17] the Iowa results show the people don't

[6:19] like that.

[6:20] The White House sees Alexander as well

[6:22] positioned, while Dole is a known

[6:24] commodity and Buchanan is viewed as too

[6:26] conservative to be the nominee.

[6:29] Alexander's third place Iowa finish is

[6:31] just how George Bush went to victory in

[6:33] 1988.

[6:35] The Clinton-Alexander similarities are

[6:37] numerous. Governors of Southern states,

[6:39] strong on education. Both came from the

[6:42] back of the pack, running as Washington

[6:44] outsiders, stressing new ideas. For the

[6:46] White House, there's a risk in going

[6:48] this negative on this candidate this

[6:50] early.

[6:51] White House aides say they're not

[6:53] worried about Alexander, but this does

[6:54] prove they're concerned. And the

[6:56] president may feel it's too early to

[6:58] worry about the election, but some aides

[7:00] clearly feel bad news shouldn't wait.

[7:03] Brian Williams, NBC News, the White

[7:05] House.

[7:06] >> Also, there are reports tonight with

[7:08] from states with primaries still to come

[7:10] that Steve Forbes, who had that fourth

[7:11] place finish in Iowa, that he has not

[7:13] renewed his advertising buys in South

[7:16] Carolina and South Dakota. Forbes spent

[7:19] an estimated $4.5 million in Iowa. As of

[7:22] the last county, he had 9,816 votes for

[7:25] his fourth place finish. That means each

[7:28] Iowa vote cost him $458.44.

[7:33] Former Vice President Dan Quayle was on

[7:35] hand today when Strom Thurmond of South

[7:38] Carolina strongly hinted that he will

[7:40] run for re-election to the Senate,

[7:42] hoping for an eighth term. If he makes

[7:44] it, he would be 100 years old when his

[7:47] final term ends.

[7:51] And when NBC Nightly News continues,

[7:53] could the pig help save thousands of

[7:55] people waiting for organ transplants?

[7:58] >> The size is about right for an adult

[8:00] human. We can have [music] large numbers

[8:03] of pigs available and the risk of

[8:05] disease transmission are much less.

[8:07] >> Could it work? How soon? We'll have some

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[8:11] tonight.

[8:12] And when we come back, campus justice.

[8:15] Did a college step over the line in a

[8:17] claim of rape? It could be a landmark

[8:20] case.

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[9:53] >> A story making news in the law and order

[9:54] beat tonight, a glimpse of things to

[9:56] come perhaps. This landmark case

[9:58] involves a charge of rape, a protest of

[10:00] innocence, and college football players.

[10:03] It's the first civil test of a new

[10:05] federal law. It could have major

[10:07] repercussions. NBC's Fred Francis has

[10:10] the story.

[10:12] >> Christie Brancal never talked about what

[10:14] happened. Even though it was a freshman

[10:16] at Virginia Tech University in the fall

[10:18] of 1994, she claimed she was sexually

[10:21] assaulted by two football players. Now

[10:24] she is suing the players and the

[10:25] university in the first civil lawsuit of

[10:27] its kind under the federal Violence

[10:29] Against Women Act.

[10:30] >> I didn't know that. Even I didn't know

[10:32] why I didn't scream. I wish I had, you

[10:34] know, I wish I had done a lot of things.

[10:36] But I didn't.

[10:38] And it was just the way the

[10:40] dice were rolled, I guess, you know. I

[10:43] I can't go back and change it now.

[10:45] >> But she did not tell anyone. The

[10:47] university, tucked in Virginia's Blue

[10:49] Ridge Mountains, did not hear about the

[10:50] charge of rape from Ms. Brancal for 9

[10:52] months.

[10:53] And then she decided that lacking

[10:55] criminal evidence, she would permit the

[10:57] school's private, some say secretive,

[10:59] internal judicial system to hear the

[11:02] charge. One ball player was exonerated,

[11:04] the other 19-year-old Tony Morrison, a

[11:06] reserve freshman linebacker, said it was

[11:09] consensual sex, not rape. And he agreed

[11:11] to abide by the school's decision. After

[11:14] two hearings, the school decided there

[11:16] was sexual misconduct and gave Morrison

[11:19] a naughty boy reprimand and placed him

[11:21] on probation. Ms. Brancal's lawyer

[11:23] insist it was their status as football

[11:26] players that got them off easy.

[11:27] >> Sexual assault simply cannot be treated

[11:29] in a in in a trivial or superficial

[11:33] manner and be handled by boards of

[11:36] administrators or of students that were

[11:39] typically set up to handle matters like

[11:41] plagiarism.

[11:42] >> Morrison's attorney counters that having

[11:43] agreed to let the school decide the

[11:45] case, Ms. Brancala is now suing because

[11:47] she sees a profit in the decision.

[11:50] >> In fact, if if he had not been a

[11:51] football player and if he had not been a

[11:53] black football player, this case would

[11:55] never be in the courts to begin with.

[11:58] >> But the Brancala case is more about

[12:00] football and sexual misconduct. If the

[12:02] school loses, it must do away with its

[12:05] system of hearing such cases, a system

[12:07] that most colleges use. And ironically,

[12:10] it is often the only way women like

[12:12] Christie Brancala get their day in

[12:14] court.

[12:15] Fred Francis, NBC News, Blacksburg,

[12:18] Virginia.

[12:20] >> In other news around the nation tonight,

[12:21] the first American soldier killed in

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[12:29] The 38-year-old career soldier was

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[14:25] transplants, in this case, giving the

[14:27] hope of life to almost 20,000 Americans

[14:30] who get those transplants each year.

[14:33] But organs, of course, are in

[14:34] desperately short supply. Right now,

[14:36] about 40,000 patients are on the

[14:38] national waiting list for an organ. Many

[14:40] more can't even get on that list because

[14:42] of age or physical condition.

[14:45] In fact, experts say that 100,000 would

[14:47] benefit right now if kidneys were

[14:49] available for transplant. Half a million

[14:52] if more transplant livers could be had.

[14:55] But there is new hope tonight that the

[14:57] gaps can be filled.

[14:59] And the source?

[15:01] Well, let NBC's Robert Bazell explain in

[15:04] our in depth report.

[15:07] >> You wouldn't know it to look at them,

[15:08] but these pigs are not what they seem.

[15:10] They are, in fact, a tiny part human.

[15:13] And they may become a source of spare

[15:15] parts for people soon.

[15:18] >> I think we're looking within the next

[15:19] year to 2 years.

[15:21] >> A major reason for using pigs to supply

[15:23] organs for humans is that scientists can

[15:25] genetically engineer the pigs to try to

[15:28] prevent rejection of the organs by the

[15:30] human body.

[15:32] Here's how it works.

[15:33] Researchers remove the pigs from their

[15:35] mothers when they are embryos.

[15:37] They then insert some human genetic

[15:39] material, DNA, into the embryos and

[15:42] return them to the womb.

[15:45] As a result, some of these pigs are born

[15:47] with human proteins on the surface of

[15:49] their organs. Doctors hope that means

[15:52] that the pig organs will not be rapidly

[15:53] rejected by the human body the way

[15:56] organs from other species usually are.

[15:59] And pigs offer other advantages over

[16:01] other animals.

[16:02] >> The size is about right for an adult

[16:04] human. We can have large numbers of pigs

[16:07] available and the risk of disease

[16:09] transmission are much less.

[16:11] >> Baboons, which are more closely related

[16:13] to humans, have been the source of most

[16:15] organs used so far for cross-species

[16:17] transplants, but with little success.

[16:20] The infant known as Baby Fae lived for

[16:22] 20 days with a baboon heart in 1984.

[16:25] In 1992 and 1993, doctors in Pittsburgh

[16:29] transplanted two men with baboon livers.

[16:31] Both lived only a few weeks.

[16:34] The need to find a source of animal

[16:35] organs is great.

[16:37] Renee Stanley's husband was one of the

[16:39] 50,000 people who die in this country

[16:41] each year for lack of an organ

[16:43] transplant.

[16:44] >> We had a lot of hope

[16:47] that something would come along in time,

[16:49] but it just didn't.

[16:52] >> Will the pig organs work?

[16:54] Any day now at Duke University, doctors

[16:56] will carry out the first test of

[16:58] genetically engineered pig organs.

[17:01] Doctors will try to keep a person alive

[17:03] awaiting a liver transplant by

[17:05] temporarily hooking up a pig liver

[17:07] outside the body.

[17:09] They tried this approach six times

[17:11] before with pig livers that were not

[17:13] genetically engineered.

[17:15] Antibodies from blood in five patients

[17:17] destroyed the pig livers and the

[17:19] patients died.

[17:21] Only one patient, Eric Thomas, survived

[17:24] long enough to get a human liver

[17:25] transplant.

[17:26] >> I'm just happy, you know, that I'm

[17:28] living, you know, I thank God for that.

[17:31] >> If the livers from these genetically

[17:32] engineered pigs work outside the human

[17:35] body, doctors will begin pig-to-human

[17:37] transplants of kidneys, hearts, and

[17:40] livers, marking the beginning of a new

[17:42] era in medicine.

[17:44] Robert Bazell, NBC News, Albany, Ohio.

[17:48] >> But even if the science works, even if

[17:50] lives are saved, what are the ethical

[17:52] consequences?

[17:54] Dr. Arthur Caplan, the director of the

[17:56] Center for Bioethics at the University

[17:58] of Pennsylvania, his take tonight in his

[18:00] own words.

[18:01] >> First and foremost, is it ethically

[18:03] acceptable to use an animal in a human

[18:05] being? Some people would simply say,

[18:07] "It's unnatural. It's It's bizarre. It

[18:10] almost seems taboo to have someone alive

[18:12] with a pig heart or a sheep liver." The

[18:15] second ethical objection is that it's

[18:16] wrong in terms of killing the animals.

[18:18] And my argument would be, in fact, it is

[18:20] quite ethically defensible. We eat

[18:22] animals for breakfast, we hunt them, we

[18:25] exploit them for fur and other types of

[18:27] products. And if you were trying to

[18:29] figure out ways to stop

[18:31] uh the use of animals or the

[18:32] exploitation of animals, you wouldn't

[18:34] start here. You'd go and see what's on

[18:36] the American breakfast table before

[18:37] you'd move into the realm of

[18:39] transplantable organs. If you ask me to

[18:41] weigh the moral claim of a pig against

[18:44] the moral claim of a child, I'm going to

[18:46] say that that is worth making that

[18:48] sacrifice. I'm not going to be happy

[18:50] that I had to kill the pig. It's a sad

[18:51] and tragic way to have to get this baby

[18:54] to live, but it's a swap I would make

[18:56] and I think it's a morally defensible

[18:58] swap because in the end, I think the

[19:00] baby and the baby's family unit, in

[19:02] terms of their interests and their moral

[19:04] sensibilities, are going to count for a

[19:06] lot more than the pig and the pig's

[19:08] family unit. You get used to the idea

[19:10] that you're going to use animal parts in

[19:12] human bodies and that isn't so different

[19:13] from eating a steak or actually putting

[19:16] a pig valve into a heart which we do now

[19:17] all the time.

[19:19] I think it's going to take time for

[19:20] society to accommodate. I would counsel

[19:23] going slowly, carefully both to show the

[19:25] science and the safety are demonstrated

[19:28] and at the same time to say, "Look,

[19:29] here's the ethical argument. Are we all

[19:30] on board this or more or less all of us

[19:33] that this is a reasonable thing to do?"

[19:35] And then push forward from there.

[19:38] >> When NBC Nightly News continues

[19:40] >> continues, more of the day's news, the

[19:42] Oscar nominations. How do films really

[19:44] get nominated?

[19:46] It's not exactly what you think.

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[21:49] >> Right at 6:30 on the news channel,

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[22:31] On Wall Street today, the Dow was up

[22:33] just over a point, but that was good

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[22:41] Now to NBC News online, beyond the day's

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[23:04] If only computers themselves were easy

[23:06] to deal with. Playing chess with a

[23:08] computer was no problem for Mr. Spock.

[23:11] But then he was a Vulcan. Human chess

[23:14] champion Garry Kasparov now is locked in

[23:17] a six-game contest with a sophisticated

[23:19] new computer called Deep Blue. Its moves

[23:22] carried out by a human technician.

[23:25] The computer won the first game,

[23:27] Kasparov the second. Game three today, a

[23:29] draw. Stay tuned.

[23:33] Veteran actor Martin Balsam died today

[23:36] in Rome apparently of a heart attack. He

[23:38] was 76 years old. In a career that

[23:40] spanned four decades, he won praise for

[23:42] his work in such films as 12 Angry Men.

[23:46] The Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho.

[23:49] But it was a charming A Thousand Clowns

[23:51] which won Balsam an Oscar for best

[23:54] supporting actor.

[23:55] When we come back, hope, hype, and the

[23:57] hundreds of thousands of dollars spent

[24:00] in promoting Oscar.

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[26:03] >> A Dateline exclusive, Jane Pauley talks

[26:05] with the sister of Oklahoma City bombing

[26:07] suspect Timothy McVeigh.

[26:08] >> If I get called to testify, it's going

[26:10] to be for the prosecution.

[26:11] >> Dateline tonight.

[26:14] >> This was a big day in Hollywood. It was

[26:16] the annual announcement of the Oscars

[26:17] nominations for best picture, best

[26:19] actor, actress, and all that.

[26:22] There may be someone, somewhere who

[26:24] still believes in the tooth fairy and

[26:26] the idea that the Oscars are awarded

[26:29] on artistic merit alone.

[26:32] That person should meet NBC's George

[26:34] Lewis.

[26:35] >> Apollo 13, Brian Grazer, producer.

[26:38] >> 650 members of the press covered this

[26:40] morning's announcement of the nominees.

[26:43] And when the winners are announced March

[26:44] 25th, there'll be an estimated TV

[26:46] audience of over 1 billion people in 125

[26:50] countries. Braveheart got 10 nominations

[26:53] and actor-director Mel Gibson says this

[26:55] is a big thing for him.

[26:56] >> Doing handstands and headstands and and

[26:58] back somersaults. I mean, you can't see

[27:00] it, but but it's all happening on the

[27:02] inside.

[27:02] >> And it can be a big box office boost for

[27:05] the nominated pictures. For example, the

[27:07] movie Il Postino, the postman, only

[27:09] earned $16 million at the box office.

[27:12] But now the Oscar publicity could add

[27:15] another $8 million to the receipts. The

[27:17] studio has spent a million and a half

[27:19] dollars promoting the film.

[27:21] >> You pretty drunk?

[27:22] >> Likewise, Leaving Las Vegas, another

[27:24] nominated picture, was promoted to the

[27:26] tune of several hundred thousand

[27:28] dollars. It used to be that movie

[27:30] companies took out big ads in trade

[27:32] publications. Now it's become too big a

[27:34] business. They go directly to the people

[27:36] who do the Oscar voting. The nominations

[27:39] are decided by the 5,043 voting members

[27:42] of the Academy.

[27:44] So, who in the world are these 5,043

[27:46] people?

[27:47] I wasn't nominated.

[27:50] People like actor

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