CBS Evening News - 1992-07-24
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[0:01] Iraq remains defiant. President Bush
[0:03] gets ready for a possible showdown with
[0:05] Saddam. Mr. Bush is shouted down by
[0:08] angry families of American MIA.
[0:12] >> Would you please shut up and sit down?
[0:14] >> And I on America, high-tech companies
[0:17] claiming commercial rights to your body
[0:19] cells.
[0:20] >> You could go to the absurd baby. Could
[0:21] you patent the sperm?
[0:23] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:32] Good evening. I'm Paula Aison sitting in
[0:34] tonight for Dan Rather. A possible break
[0:37] tonight in the standoff between Saddam
[0:39] Hussein and UN weapons inspectors.
[0:41] Iraq's ambassador to the UN says his
[0:43] government is studying a proposed
[0:45] compromise and he expects what he calls
[0:47] a positive reply by tomorrow. The
[0:50] ambassador statement comes as the United
[0:52] States and his allies are turning up the
[0:54] heat on Saddam. Jim Stewart at the
[0:56] Pentagon has our report.
[0:59] >> In an abrupt change of plans while
[1:01] campaigning in Ohio, President Bush
[1:03] canceled his weekend in Kenny Bunkport
[1:04] and scheduled instead a meeting at Camp
[1:06] David with top military advisers about
[1:08] the looming showdown with Iraq. We just
[1:11] want to make sure we have every
[1:12] opportunity available to the United
[1:14] States on the table and discuss, said
[1:16] the president. Mr. Bush is coordinating
[1:18] with Great Britain and France on when to
[1:20] issue an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein
[1:22] that would expire within a matter of
[1:24] days. A compromise is hoped for, but the
[1:26] Pentagon made it clear today it is ready
[1:28] for the alternative.
[1:29] >> I can assure you, however, that if it it
[1:32] if it does go to a situation requiring
[1:35] military action, u um we're prepared for
[1:38] that and it will be uh on our rules, not
[1:41] his.
[1:42] >> In Baghdad, meanwhile, more ominous
[1:44] signs as the UN inspection team that was
[1:46] denied entry to a government building
[1:48] suspected of holding weapons materials
[1:50] suddenly pulled out of the city.
[1:52] Protests have escalated in the streets
[1:53] and Saddam Hussein is meeting with his
[1:55] own top advisers.
[1:57] >> The time factor is very important and we
[2:00] hope to reach sort of mutual
[2:02] understanding the sooner the better.
[2:05] >> US air and naval forces would form the
[2:07] bulk of an attack force now forming near
[2:09] Iraq. An estimated 100 US aircraft
[2:12] ranging from stealth F-17s to F-15
[2:15] fighters and air tankers are in the
[2:16] Persian Gulf region supported by another
[2:19] 75 planes on the nearby aircraft carrier
[2:21] Independence. In addition, about 200
[2:24] Tomahawk cruise missiles are aboard
[2:25] warships now steaming within range of
[2:27] Baghdad. The moves are meeting with
[2:30] approval in Congress. I hope it's
[2:32] employed in such a way it can bring once
[2:34] and for all a conclusion to this issue
[2:36] and that we not have that lingering
[2:38] doubt that has followed the first
[2:41] military operation some many months ago.
[2:45] One of the biggest disappointments of
[2:46] the Persian Gulf War was Saddam
[2:48] Hussein's survival. And while planners
[2:50] here don't count on getting lucky this
[2:51] time either, they do hope to weaken his
[2:53] hold on power enough that a coup becomes
[2:55] possible in Baghdad. Jim Stewart, CBS
[2:58] News, the Pentagon. There is more
[3:00] evidence of just how unusual this
[3:03] election year is. President Bush
[3:05] addressed what is usually considered a
[3:06] friendly audience and wound up getting
[3:09] heckled. More about that from Susan
[3:11] Spencer.
[3:12] >> An honest
[3:13] >> Mr. Bush's speech to MIA families was
[3:15] planned to showcase his concern.
[3:17] Instead, a hostile crowd accused him of
[3:20] betraying the cause and shouted him
[3:22] down.
[3:23] >> We came up against a string of official
[3:26] statements.
[3:28] TELL US THE TRUTH. TELL US THE TRUTH.
[3:34] Tell us the truth.
[3:36] >> The president appeared at a loss. About
[3:38] two dozen people kept on heckling,
[3:40] insisting that the White House hasn't
[3:42] paid enough attention and had just
[3:43] released Pentagon files on missing
[3:45] Americans are incomplete. Exasperated,
[3:48] Mr. Bush appealed to them as a proud
[3:50] Navy flyer.
[3:52] >> And I will put my record up against
[3:54] anybody here. And I just would you
[3:58] please be quiet and let me finish. Would
[4:01] you please shut up and sit down?
[4:07] And I would say this,
[4:09] to suggest that a commanderin-chief that
[4:12] led this country into its most
[4:13] successful recent effort, would condone
[4:16] for one single day
[4:19] that personal knowledge of a person held
[4:22] against his will, whether it's here or
[4:24] any place else, is simply totally
[4:28] unfair.
[4:29] >> But as he left, there were more
[4:30] protests.
[4:34] NOW TELL THE TRUTH.
[4:36] >> WE HAVE asked politely. We have begged.
[4:38] It isn't we didn't do this the first day
[4:40] or the first week or the first decade.
[4:42] It's been I was 14 years old. And if
[4:44] it's going to take standing up in front
[4:46] of our president to make him take action
[4:48] that he should have taken many many
[4:50] years ago, then I'll stand up any time
[4:53] and any place. These are three sketches
[4:56] of live Americans back in 1979. My son
[4:59] is supposed to be one of them. Uh, if
[5:03] they're not my son, they're somebody's
[5:05] son.
[5:06] >> The protest drowned out the president's
[5:08] message and overshadowed his entire
[5:10] campaign day as he stumped later in the
[5:13] Midwest. Given how this trip started,
[5:15] the campaign might well be relieved. For
[5:17] now, the events are bringing Mr. Bush
[5:19] back to Washington. At least in the role
[5:21] of commanderin-chief, most voters still
[5:23] give him high marks. Susan Spencer, CBS
[5:26] News, Columbia, Missouri. The
[5:29] president's campaign trouble though goes
[5:30] beyond angry MIA families. Take all
[5:33] those Ross Perau backers. Now that Perau
[5:35] is backed out, no one knows which way
[5:38] they'll swing. Bill Lagatuda look for
[5:40] some signals in a key county in the
[5:42] West.
[5:44] >> Somewhere down in the crowd at the
[5:45] Orange County Fair in California are the
[5:48] voters who could make the difference in
[5:50] the presidential race.
[5:51] >> You were a rich Republican who was
[5:53] leaning toward Perau.
[5:54] >> I was a rich Republican leaning towards
[5:56] Perau. Now that Pero's gone,
[5:58] >> I'm undecided.
[6:00] >> This is conservative territory, Ronald
[6:02] Reagan country, and always an important
[6:04] place on the electoral map, but never as
[6:06] much a battleground as now. Ross Perau's
[6:09] own pollster has always known that.
[6:12] >> I think the Perau voter will determine
[6:13] the election in a number of states, but
[6:15] no place will it be more important than
[6:17] California. George Bush has to capture
[6:19] back these people because these are
[6:21] votes right from his own base.
[6:23] >> Clinton will be here this Sunday. To
[6:24] many of them, however, Bill Clinton
[6:26] suddenly seems appealing. Business is up
[6:29] at the Democrats booth, usually a lonely
[6:31] place at this fair. One disgruntled
[6:33] Perau supporter even dropped off a gift,
[6:36] the computer list of former volunteers.
[6:38] >> What are you going to do with these
[6:39] names?
[6:40] >> We plan to call these people to ask them
[6:42] if they um want to continue with the
[6:44] change.
[6:45] >> This aggressive approach is paying off.
[6:47] A local poll has Clinton leading Bush.
[6:50] The last time a Democrat was ahead here,
[6:52] it was Franklin Roosevelt.
[6:54] >> It has more to do with the fact that
[6:56] these people knowingly left Bush and are
[7:00] now uh looking for an alternative and
[7:02] the only alternative is Clinton and
[7:04] Gore.
[7:04] >> All of which goes against the
[7:06] conventional wisdom that Perau out of
[7:08] the race would hurt Clinton and help
[7:10] Bush. Now, once again, in this crazy
[7:13] election year, all bets are offister.
[7:16] And some local Republicans say their
[7:18] party just hasn't been working hard
[7:20] enough to convince Perau's people to
[7:23] return to their roots.
[7:24] >> Bush would be better off without Perau
[7:27] having been in the race and simply
[7:29] because Perau and the forces across
[7:32] America cried change, change.
[7:35] >> Were you a Republican beforehand?
[7:37] >> Yes.
[7:37] >> Why not go back to Bush?
[7:39] >> I'm not happy with what he's doing.
[7:42] In this crowd, as in the rest of the
[7:44] country, there are a lot of unhappy
[7:46] voters, and the candidate who finds them
[7:48] and keeps them could ride right into the
[7:51] White House. Bill Agata, CBS News,
[7:53] Orange County, California.
[7:57] Still ahead on the CBS Evening News,
[7:58] hundreds locked up. Are they deserters
[8:01] or victims of ethnic hatred? And women
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[9:21] >> New fallout from the investigation of
[9:23] sexual harassment in the Navy. Five
[9:25] high-ranking officers at the Myiramar
[9:27] Naval Air Station in California have
[9:29] been relieved of their commands. The men
[9:32] under them put on an obscene skit that
[9:34] included sexual remarks about
[9:35] Congresswoman Pat Schroeder. A Navy
[9:38] aviator says he will appeal to the
[9:40] Secretary of the Navy to let him stay in
[9:42] the service even though he's gay. A
[9:45] military panel recommended today that
[9:47] Lieutenant Tracy Thorne be discharged.
[9:49] Thorne acknowledged his homosexuality
[9:51] two months ago and challenged the
[9:53] Pentagon ban on gays in the military.
[9:57] Overseas, hundreds of Bosnian refugees
[9:59] who tried to escape the civil war in
[10:01] their homeland are right back in the
[10:03] middle of it tonight. Their flight to
[10:05] freedom took a wrong turn in Croatia,
[10:07] where old ethnic rivalries brought their
[10:09] journey to an early end. Alan Pizzy has
[10:12] their story from the Bosnian city of
[10:14] Yablanita.
[10:18] >> They already fled this war once. Now
[10:20] these men, mainly Muslims, are in Bosnia
[10:23] again, forced back by the Croatian
[10:25] government.
[10:27] The nearly 1,000 men dumped in this
[10:29] soccer stadium are being classed as
[10:31] deserters. They see themselves as
[10:33] refugees.
[10:34] >> We are all all of us are lost.
[10:38] We have no weapons. We have no food.
[10:42] >> A senior relief official who requested
[10:44] anonymity said there was no doubt that
[10:46] Croatia's policy was anti-Muslim. The
[10:49] Muslims fear they are cannon fodder in a
[10:51] war designed to divide their homeland up
[10:53] between Serbs and Croats. All is a
[10:56] result of big polit political games,
[11:00] political mination.
[11:03] >> The relief official said Muslims are
[11:05] turning against the Croats, who are
[11:06] supposed to be their allies against the
[11:08] Serbs, another potentially brutal twist
[11:11] in this ethnic firestorm.
[11:14] Above all else, these people are bitter.
[11:16] The Serbs burned our homes, one man
[11:18] said. And the Croats hate us. They just
[11:20] want to divide our country up between
[11:22] them.
[11:24] The carets have shunted the Muslims to a
[11:26] place already short on food and hard to
[11:28] reach with relief aid.
[11:32] >> Even Muslim women and children are being
[11:34] forced here after escaping to Croatia.
[11:36] These 3-month-old twin boys have been
[11:38] refugees since just after they were
[11:40] born. Both are sick and the family is
[11:43] only able to shuttle back to Croatia
[11:45] because a local Red Cross official wrote
[11:47] them a permit to seek medical help.
[11:52] We cannot handle any more refugees.
[11:54] Musich Nezdad said, "These people are
[11:56] angry, probably with good reason. All we
[11:59] can do is struggle to feed them."
[12:02] The volunteers who run this small
[12:03] kitchen only have two dozen plates, so
[12:06] they serve in shifts. New mothers like
[12:09] Rasama Pekmez go first. She gave birth
[12:12] in an abandoned house, then walked
[12:13] across a mountain with her new baby and
[12:15] two other children. Her husband is at
[12:18] war.
[12:19] It is a bitter legacy to impose on a
[12:22] people who have already suffered so much
[12:24] and want only to stay safe until they
[12:26] can go home again, whenever that may be.
[12:30] Alan Pizzy, CBS News, Yablanita.
[12:34] >> Bosnia's top long-distance runner will
[12:36] realize her dream of competing in the
[12:38] summer Olympics. The games get underway
[12:40] this weekend. Today, Mrs. Boridge made
[12:42] it to the Sarah Yeevo airport and caught
[12:44] a plane for Barcelona chartered by the
[12:46] International Olympic Committee. She had
[12:49] dodged sniper fire to train for the
[12:51] games and used borrowed running shoes
[12:53] when Serbian soldiers confiscated hers.
[12:57] Stay with us now for more of the CBS
[12:59] Evening News, including separation
[13:01] anxiety in paradise. A wealthy community
[13:04] pushing for independence from a troubled
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[14:55] >> For a change, a bit of hopeful news
[14:57] about the economy today. The government
[14:59] reports a big jump in orders for
[15:01] so-called durable goods, things like
[15:03] cars and major appliances. Those orders
[15:05] can translate into jobs. The economy, of
[15:08] course, is a big reason for voter unrest
[15:10] this year, but it isn't the only reason.
[15:13] Some say they're angry enough to leave
[15:14] town, not by going somewhere else, but
[15:17] by seceding from the city they live in.
[15:19] Doug Danell has a case in point.
[15:22] >> I think the people in the Grove are
[15:24] proud. You know, they say, "Oh, here
[15:25] we're from Coconut Grove." And they
[15:28] don't think they're part of Miami. And
[15:29] what many of Laura Kelly's neighbors
[15:31] will also tell you is they are sick and
[15:33] tired of paying the highest taxes in
[15:35] Miami and feeling like they get little
[15:37] in return. Like Cindy and Lloyd Schwed,
[15:40] many say it is high time for Coconut
[15:42] Grove to secede from the city of Miami.
[15:45] >> It just seems as though it's impossible
[15:48] to get government either federally or
[15:51] locally to respond. And so if you have
[15:54] to just make yourself a little town that
[15:57] is responsive, then maybe that's the
[16:00] answer.
[16:00] >> In the leafy, largely affluent
[16:02] neighborhoods of the globe, the most
[16:04] popular remedy for the ills of America's
[16:06] big cities is making smaller ones
[16:08] breaking away.
[16:10] >> We're talking about issues like filling
[16:12] a pothole, calling a cop, and having
[16:14] come to your house within 3 minutes to 5
[16:16] minutes, not 20 minutes to a half an
[16:18] hour. Some Grove families consider
[16:20] regular police patrols so inadequate
[16:22] that they are paying $100 a month for
[16:24] offduty city cops to prowl the streets
[16:27] after hours. Supporters of secession say
[16:29] the extra patrols are a neighborhood
[16:31] solution to a neighborhood problem.
[16:33] There is a precedent. Just across
[16:36] Biscane Bay, the richest neighborhood in
[16:38] the Miami area is celebrating its first
[16:40] year of independence from Dade County
[16:42] government. So far, all is well in the
[16:44] village of Kis Gain. Because Coconut
[16:47] Grove accounts for more than 15% of the
[16:50] city's tax revenues, the prospect of
[16:52] secession sends chills up the spine of
[16:54] most city activists.
[16:56] >> If we start having neighborhoods leave,
[16:58] particularly rich neighborhoods, leave
[17:00] the city of Miami. The city is going to
[17:02] come apart. It's going to simply
[17:04] disintegrate in front of our eyes. And
[17:06] then we'll have poor neighborhoods
[17:07] abandoned, left alone to survive. But in
[17:10] a year when the political outsider holds
[17:13] unique appeal, the question here is if a
[17:15] whole community is prepared to become
[17:18] one. Doug Tanell, CBS News, Coconut
[17:21] Grove.
[17:22] >> Coming up next on the CBS Evening News
[17:24] Eye on America. Tonight, the new laws of
[17:27] genetic engineering. Cells in your body
[17:30] could be owned by someone else.
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[19:21] >> Tonight's Eye on America is about the
[19:23] business of science. But before you turn
[19:26] away and say that has nothing to do with
[19:27] me, wait. This is all about you. The
[19:31] billions of cells that make up your
[19:32] body. And as Wyatt Andrews reports, who
[19:35] owns them.
[19:37] >> They admit it's a bit unusual. They say
[19:40] it's for your own good. But whether you
[19:42] like it or not, Linda Santag biotech
[19:45] company owns the patent, that is the
[19:47] exclusive commercial rights, to the
[19:49] cells within your body that make your
[19:51] blood. So you own something that's in
[19:54] the body.
[19:54] >> That is correct.
[19:56] >> How is that right?
[19:57] >> How is it not right to lay claim to
[20:02] something that has taken extraordinary
[20:04] amounts of investment in time and
[20:07] dollars
[20:09] to create something that has benefit to
[20:12] mankind. What SAG's company Systemics
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[20:18] to isolate stem cells, the cells that
[20:20] generate blood and the immune system.
[20:23] Systemics believes its discovery will be
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[20:39] you and allow you to reconstitute your
[20:41] blood and immune system free of cancer
[20:43] cells.
[20:44] >> If you take a protein out of my body, I
[20:47] want to own it.
[20:49] >> Not everyone is excited about this
[20:51] commercial leap into your own cells. Dr.
[20:54] Peter Quzinberry of the Leukemia
[20:56] Society. If you can patent two cells or
[20:59] five cells coming together, can you then
[21:01] patent an organ? Could you then patent a
[21:05] characteristic and say anybody with
[21:07] those characteristics, I have a patent
[21:09] on that
[21:10] >> and the right to commercially exploit
[21:11] >> and the right to commercial. You could
[21:13] go to the absurd maybe could you patent
[21:14] sperm.
[21:16] >> There's been a progression in industry's
[21:18] ownership of life forms. First it was
[21:20] the oil eating micro. Then came
[21:22] genetically altered mice. Now it's human
[21:25] cells. There's more. In a little known
[21:28] aspect of the brave new world coming
[21:30] from the biotech industry, an
[21:32] international competition is now on to
[21:34] find and to patent not just the most
[21:36] important cells within the body, but
[21:39] also the very genetic makeup of the
[21:41] body. Scientists are frantically drawing
[21:44] a map of every gene you have in a race
[21:47] to own the 5,000 genes believed to cause
[21:49] disease. The controversial leader in
[21:52] this research is the US government. It's
[21:54] the secret code of life.
[21:56] >> Controversial because Dr. Craig Ventner
[21:59] at the National Institutes of Health
[22:00] would patent not just genes, but the
[22:03] tiniest gene fragments he's finding on a
[22:05] computer. Some biotech firms object, not
[22:08] out of ethics, but out of fear the
[22:10] government will beat them to the prize.
[22:12] They would own the right to a piece of
[22:14] the gene when you're trying to discover
[22:16] >> what the gene's usefulness is, and that
[22:19] is where the value lies. But without
[22:22] patents on gene fragments, the
[22:24] government says, "What if it gives away
[22:26] a billion dollar cure paid for by the US
[22:28] taxpayer?"
[22:29] >> We run the risk of impairing the
[22:32] competitiveness of this country in the
[22:34] biotechnology industry if we ignore the
[22:37] potential patentability of these
[22:39] molecules.
[22:39] >> Because human genes are now seen as the
[22:42] key to disease, the biotech industry
[22:44] says owning body parts is a 21st century
[22:47] business necessity. That means the idea
[22:50] of patented sperm isn't so absurd
[22:52] anymore.
[22:53] >> If you could discover something and make
[22:55] it available to women who are having
[22:57] trouble reproducing, I think you should
[22:59] be able to patent it.
[23:00] >> Even though that deals with life itself
[23:03] >> because that's the way these women are
[23:05] going to benefit.
[23:05] >> Biotech specialists compare what's going
[23:08] on to the gold rush of 1849. Except this
[23:11] time, our own bodies are what's being
[23:13] mined and the gold is our own molecules
[23:16] lying there to be discovered. and
[23:18] claimed in PaloAlto, California. Wyatt
[23:22] Andrews for Eye on America.
[23:34] >> Suddenly, vitamins are all over the
[23:36] news.
[23:37] >> Fact is, two out of three adults don't
[23:39] get all that's recommended in their
[23:40] diets. Two out of three.
[23:43] >> Wonder if I'm getting the vitamins I
[23:44] should.
[23:45] There is a cereal though that has 100%
[23:48] of 10 essential vitamins. Whole grain
[23:51] total.
[23:52] >> Of course,
[23:53] >> just one bowl gives you a full day's
[23:55] allowance of these vitamins.
[23:58] Total. One bowl 100%.
[24:00] >> With all the vitamin I'm eating total,
[24:03] >> of course.
[24:04] >> Evenings I soak my dentures. Mornings I
[24:07] brush. Then back to soaking.
[24:09] >> Wait, all you need is denture cream. Why
[24:11] soak when denture cream gets dentures
[24:13] nearly twice as clean? With more than
[24:15] twice as much mint, all you need is
[24:17] denture cream every time.
[24:19] >> I try to ignore my sensitive teeth, but
[24:21] they hurt.
[24:22] >> Don't ignore your sensitive teeth.
[24:24] Sensidine helps stop the pain that can
[24:26] make you stop brushing. Could lead even
[24:28] to tooth loss.
[24:29] >> Thanks, Sensidine.
[24:30] >> Sensedine helps stop the pain of
[24:32] sensitive teeth. For 3 days only at
[24:35] Sears, every gallon of paint, every roll
[24:38] of wallpaper is on sale. Save 10 to 33%
[24:41] on every gallon of paint and 33% on
[24:43] every wallpaper pattern in stock. But
[24:45] hurry, sale ends Saturday at Sears.
[24:49] >> Boy, this couch weighs a ton. Where does
[24:51] it go, Miss Lansbury?
[24:52] >> Right there, please. Wow. If I lifted
[24:55] that, I'd need buffering for the aches
[24:56] and pains afterwards.
[24:58] >> You really believe in buffering?
[24:59] >> I certainly do.
[25:00] >> It's strong, huh?
[25:01] >> Extra strength buffering has the
[25:03] strongest dosage of aspirin that you can
[25:05] buy. And I've discovered that the
[25:07] buffers don't weaken it. They just help
[25:09] prevent aspirin stomach upset.
[25:11] >> Shouldn't you discover the strength of
[25:12] Bufferin? And for nighttime aches,
[25:14] pains, and sleeplessness, try Buffin AF
[25:16] nighttime. It's aspirin free.
[25:19] >> Do you get diarrhea, too?
[25:21] >> Yes, I do get diarrhea. And what I take
[25:24] is Kopectate. I have no time to be sick.
[25:26] Kopectate stops the symptoms fast. It
[25:29] gets rid of the diarrhea. Kopectate
[25:32] works every time.
[25:35] The World AIDS Conference in Amsterdam
[25:38] ended today. For a week, experts shared
[25:41] what they know. Others were there to
[25:43] share how they feel. CBS News health
[25:45] correspondent Edie Magnus has their
[25:47] story.
[25:54] >> There were thousands here at the
[25:56] conference whose interest in AIDS isn't
[25:58] scientific. It's personal.
[26:01] This is the new face of the epidemic.
[26:03] This is Linda Luchi.
[26:05] >> Women are the group that is now becoming
[26:08] infected at at the greatest numbers and
[26:10] they still don't believe they're at
[26:11] risk. They still believe, oh, that's a
[26:13] gay male disease.
[26:14] >> But increasingly, it's not.
[26:16] >> I was infected by my husband who had
[26:18] multiple blood transfusions. He died in
[26:20] 1985.
[26:22] >> To deal with the fear and the isolation,
[26:24] Linda started a support group for
[26:25] infected women back home in Los Angeles.
[26:28] >> Every night I go to bed and I hear this
[26:29] tick tick tick tick. It's not just a
[26:32] disease. It's a stigma.
[26:34] >> It's the stigma and the inequities in
[26:36] treatment that brought Linda to the
[26:37] conference this year. She came to find
[26:39] out about her disease. She found a
[26:42] sisterhood instead.
[26:43] >> HIV positive women.
[26:45] >> One really exciting moment after a long
[26:48] time of feeling alone and isolated was
[26:51] to go up in front of 50 women from
[26:53] around the world. Wow. It was really an
[26:57] amazing experience.
[26:58] >> Join me in welcoming Tom Stutard. This
[27:00] is a familiar face in the world of AIDS.
[27:02] >> We feel in our bones every facet and
[27:05] every nuance of this illness.
[27:07] >> For years, gay attorney Tom Stoddard
[27:09] fought civil rights cases for those with
[27:11] HIV. Now he has AIDS and he's fighting
[27:14] for his life.
[27:15] >> It's a very grizzly little waiting game.
[27:18] Um I'm not waiting for my death. I'm
[27:19] waiting for a cure.
[27:20] >> But he's had to go on disability now. So
[27:23] Tom's doing free aids legal work for
[27:25] those who don't have the advantages he's
[27:27] had to fight this disease. middle class
[27:29] gay white men have access to medical
[27:32] information that is not available to
[27:35] other people, particularly people who
[27:37] are poor. Um, and I'd like to be a
[27:39] bridge to the degree I can.
[27:41] >> Tom says he's not thinking about how
[27:43] long he has. Not always, anyway.
[27:46] >> I'd like to see the turn of a century.
[27:47] That would be a very nice demarcation.
[27:49] It's eight years away.
[27:51] >> The conference closed today with a
[27:53] ceremonial handoff to next year's hosts
[27:55] in Berlin. Next year there will be new
[27:57] faces here, the newly sick and next year
[28:00] some of the old faces will be gone.
[28:03] >> There will be an answer because there
[28:04] are so many people who want to bring
[28:06] about a solution and that does give me
[28:08] hope.
[28:09] >> Edy Magnus, CBS News Amsterdam.
[28:13] >> And that is the CBS Evening News for
[28:15] tonight. Bob Schiffer will be along here
[28:17] tomorrow. I'm Paul Aison sitting in for
[28:20] Dan Rather. Hope to see you Monday on
[28:22] CBS this morning. Good night everybody.
[28:37] experience CBS News.
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[29:03] >> Will the Olympic golden athletes turn
[29:04] their medals into stardom? Get the
[29:06] inside story from former champions