CBS Evening News - 1993-09-03
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[0:00] You're watching KOIN TV, Channel 6,
[0:03] Portland, Vancouver.
[0:08] >> A Labor Day weekend battle over free
[0:10] trade and priceless jobs, President
[0:13] Clinton puts a Republican to work for
[0:15] his side.
[0:16] >> For the overweight, the wait's over for
[0:19] an eat more, weigh less diet. Oh, but
[0:21] there is a catch.
[0:22] >> And I on America, tonight the cigarette
[0:25] papers, the tobacco industry's secret
[0:27] documents about their products and your
[0:30] health.
[0:31] >> This is the CBS Evening News
[0:35] with Harry Smith and Paula Zahn in for
[0:38] Dan Rather and Connie Chung.
[0:41] >> Good evening, everybody. Heading into
[0:42] Labor Day weekend, the government says
[0:44] the unemployment rate has fallen to a
[0:46] 2-year low, 6.7%.
[0:49] But good-paying factory jobs are still
[0:51] disappearing by the thousands. Would the
[0:54] free trade deal solve that problem or
[0:56] make it worse? As correspondent Eric
[0:59] Engberg reports, the debate is about to
[1:01] get louder.
[1:03] >> American businesses eliminated 42,000
[1:05] manufacturing jobs last month, according
[1:08] to today's report from the Labor
[1:09] Department. It was the kind of statistic
[1:12] that plays into the hands of unions and
[1:14] other groups out to derail the North
[1:15] American Free Trade Agreement, which the
[1:17] president has designated his next
[1:19] legislative goal.
[1:21] The anti-NAFTA coalition led by
[1:23] organized labor has already seized the
[1:25] initiative and will be firing a weekend
[1:28] salvo of new radio ads aimed mainly at
[1:31] industrial states.
[1:32] >> More and more American companies are
[1:34] using these foreign sweatshops instead
[1:36] of creating jobs at home.
[1:38] >> With such normally democratic
[1:39] powerhouses as