CBS Evening News - 1984-04-10
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[0:02] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening
[0:04] News. Dan Rather reporting tonight from
[0:05] CBS News election headquarters in New
[0:07] York. While Democratic candidates
[0:09] slugged it out today in the Pennsylvania
[0:11] primary, President Reagan and those in
[0:13] Congress concerned about his Central
[0:15] America policy slugged it out along
[0:17] Pennsylvania Avenue. Mr. Reagan
[0:19] struggled to salvage his policy
[0:21] following disclosure that the CIA is
[0:23] directly involved in the mining of
[0:25] Nicaraguan harbors. Our coverage begins
[0:27] with Leslie Stall.
[0:30] The Reagan administration charged today
[0:32] that Cuba is arming and training
[0:34] guerrillas for a major offensive this
[0:36] fall against El Salvador. The charge was
[0:39] part of the administration's own
[0:40] offensive aimed at salvaging its
[0:42] military aid and covert operations in
[0:45] Central America, which are facing bitter
[0:47] opposition in Congress. At a welcoming
[0:49] ceremony for the president of the
[0:50] Dominican Republic, Mr. Reagan lashed
[0:53] out at Cuba. Instead of seeking mutual
[0:56] respect and friendly commerce with its
[0:58] neighbors, it exports violence and
[1:00] hatred. Cuba is now dependent on a
[1:04] faraway totalitarian power without whose
[1:07] subsidy its dictatorial government could
[1:09] not export aggression or indeed survive.
[1:12] >> The administration is fighting for its
[1:14] $21 million request in Congress to
[1:17] continue covert guerrilla operations
[1:19] against Nicaragua, including the mining
[1:21] of its harbors. Administration officials
[1:24] are warning they'll have to start
[1:26] shutting down the whole covert operation
[1:28] as early as next week unless Congress
[1:30] acts quickly. Despite that, President
[1:33] Reagan will not make a personal appeal
[1:35] for the covert aid. No lobbying or phone
[1:37] calling because his adviserss say we've
[1:40] probably lost this one already. Central
[1:43] America is turning into a potentially
[1:45] damaging issue for the president's
[1:46] campaign. as there were questions in
[1:49] Congress today not only about the wisdom
[1:51] of the policy but about whether Mr.
[1:53] Reagan himself is making the decisions.
[1:56] >> The the president is the decision maker
[1:58] in this administration. The president
[2:00] makes these decisions. The White House
[2:02] engaged in some damage control late this
[2:05] afternoon by putting out this three-page
[2:07] statement denying that there are any
[2:09] plans at all for the US to use combat
[2:11] troops in Central America and urging
[2:14] Congress to pass its request for aid to
[2:16] El Salvador. Leslie Stall, CBS News, the
[2:19] White House.
[2:21] >> Here on Capitol Hill, the political
[2:23] minds were exploding even before CIA
[2:25] Director William Casey arrived on a
[2:27] mission to salvage Reagan policies.
[2:29] Casey had received this blistering
[2:31] letter from intelligence committee
[2:32] chairman Goldwater. Goldwater, who
[2:34] claimed he was not briefed on the
[2:36] mining, called it an act of war, saying,
[2:38] "This is no way to run a railroad, and
[2:40] in the future, if anything like this
[2:42] happens, I'm going to raise one hell of
[2:44] a lot of fuss about it in the public."
[2:46] The Senate Chamber was quiet most of
[2:48] today as senators were in closed
[2:50] briefings with Casey, briefings that
[2:51] were described as confrontational and
[2:53] electric. But according to all accounts,
[2:55] few minds were changed, and a sense of
[2:58] the Senate measure by Senator Kennedy
[3:00] deploring the mining and withdrawal from
[3:02] World Court jurisdiction picked up
[3:04] support. This entire episode has
[3:06] embarrassed most Senate Republicans who
[3:08] claimed they had no idea of what was
[3:10] going on. And had they known, they would
[3:12] not have supported the administration as
[3:13] much as they did in last week's battles
[3:16] over Central American funding. And the
[3:18] controversy has clearly damaged the
[3:20] administration's credibility and could
[3:22] well affect the outcome of requests for
[3:24] Central American funds that are now
[3:26] before the House. Phil Jones, CBS News,
[3:29] Capitol Hill.
[3:30] >> The Soviet Union said today it would
[3:32] consider a request from Nicaragua to
[3:34] clear its harbors of mines. France also
[3:36] has made such an offer.
[3:54] It's in the '9s again and the same
[3:56] heatwave hits the same hot people with
[3:59] the same idea.
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[4:56] The polls are still open in
[4:57] Pennsylvania. the last chance state for
[4:59] Walter Montdale, Gary Hart, and Jesse
[5:01] Jackson to gas up with more delegates
[5:02] money and momentum before a month-long
[5:05] break in major contests. And with a big
[5:07] chunk of 172 delegates at stake tonight,
[5:10] here is what we know so far. Based on
[5:12] CBS News New York Times interviews with
[5:15] Pennians who've already voted, Walter
[5:17] Montdale is doing very well. Even though
[5:20] he is running behind Jesse Jackson in
[5:22] urban populace Philadelphia, even though
[5:24] he is running behind Gary Hart in the
[5:26] upscale Philadelphia suburbs, it's
[5:28] Walter Montdale who appears to be
[5:30] running ahead in the rest of this proud
[5:32] old historic state, this old ailing
[5:34] industry, old deeply rooted union state.
[5:37] Bob Schiffer has the latest on the
[5:39] three-way fight to unlock the Keystone
[5:41] State, where the key concern of voters
[5:43] apparently isn't where's the beef, but
[5:45] where's the bread and butter.
[5:48] candidates stepped into this industrial
[5:50] state and began their Pennsylvania
[5:52] campaigns. Local politicians told them
[5:54] the only issues that would cut here
[5:56] would be jobs and the economy. And boy
[5:58] were they right. When we asked voters
[6:00] today what issues mattered most to them,
[6:02] about 3/4 cited unemployment, helping
[6:05] poor people, or both. And nearly half
[6:08] the people we questioned today as they
[6:09] left the polls told us that they or
[6:12] someone in their household had been out
[6:14] of work and actively looking for a job
[6:16] at some point during the last year. No
[6:18] other issues came close. About a fourth
[6:20] of the people we questioned expressed
[6:22] concern about nuclear weapons, but the
[6:25] number of people worried about issues
[6:26] such as national defense and US
[6:28] involvement in Central America hovered
[6:30] only around 10%, sometimes even less.
[6:34] About half the voters here said labor
[6:36] unions have too much power, even though
[6:38] this is a heavily unionized state. In
[6:40] some other primaries, voters who felt
[6:42] that way tended to favor Gary Hart. But
[6:44] here, where unemployment is in double
[6:46] digits, Hart was splitting that voter
[6:48] group with Walter Montdale. Even though
[6:50] Montdale has the union endorsement here,
[6:53] as elsewhere, the major part of Jesse
[6:55] Jackson support is coming from black
[6:56] voters. He's getting only about 5% of
[6:59] the white vote.
[7:02] One other note, Pennsylvania voters
[7:04] really didn't begin to make up their
[7:06] minds who they were going to vote for
[7:08] until the very last. Our survey today
[7:10] suggests that about half the people who
[7:11] went to the polls today made up their
[7:13] minds who to vote for over the past week
[7:15] and 35% of them said they didn't make up
[7:18] their mind until sometime during the
[7:19] last 3 days. Her survey also suggests
[7:22] that the largest block of late deciders
[7:24] was going to Walter Montdale. Dan, thank
[7:27] you Bob. Once again tonight, the Jesse
[7:29] Jackson story is a big city success
[7:31] story and tonight the Philadelphia
[7:32] story. But while Jackson remains the
[7:34] third primary force, his biggest
[7:36] election 84 impact has little to do with
[7:39] his almost zero chance of capturing the
[7:41] nomination, Bob F looks this evening at
[7:44] Jackson's power to capture the
[7:45] imaginations and capture the votes of
[7:48] 75% of blacks who have voted in
[7:50] Pennsylvania and beyond.
[7:52] >> They believe that GOODMAN SHOULD COME
[7:54] BACK HOME. I went and got him. Here am
[7:57] I. Send me. Send me.
[8:02] His message is urgent, the appeal
[8:04] emotional, the impact immediate. And in
[8:06] Philadelphia, as in Chicago and New York
[8:08] City, voters like Mrs. Lonnie Johnson, a
[8:11] professor and mother of three, like
[8:13] Ronald Harper, a 38-year-old lawyer, and
[8:16] Frank Good, an unemployed factory
[8:17] worker, Philadelphia like these heard
[8:20] Jackson's call and responded.
[8:22] >> I think he's dynamic. Yeah, he makes me
[8:24] real proud. For Frank Good, a
[8:26] sharecropper's son, voting for a black
[8:28] man today helped bury the past and a
[8:30] conversation he still remembers with his
[8:32] parents' boss in 1948.
[8:35] >> At that particular time, I asked him why
[8:37] couldn't my parents go and vote. And
[8:39] she, the lady that I working for was a
[8:41] white lady. She told me that she didn't
[8:43] think black people had sense enough to
[8:45] vote.
[8:45] >> Okay,
[8:46] >> I hate to make this statement, but
[8:47] racial pride is a great reason that I am
[8:50] voting for Justice Jackson. Now, racial
[8:51] pride, yes. younger and more prosperous.
[8:54] Attorney Ronald Harper knows exactly
[8:56] what Frank Good means. And
[8:57] >> I think it's a matter of black pride to
[9:00] support Jesse Jackson. And I think
[9:02] that's what black people are doing and
[9:04] are going to do.
[9:05] >> It wasn't unanimous. Some like Oprah
[9:07] Kernodal who don't think Jackson can win
[9:08] the nomination supported Walter
[9:10] Manddale.
[9:11] >> Walter Manddale presents the the best
[9:14] ultimate opportunity for blacks in this
[9:18] uh dynamic uh democratic process. That
[9:21] was the position of Wilson Good,
[9:23] Philadelphia's first black mayor and
[9:24] virtually the only black-elected
[9:26] official here who endorsed Manddale. If
[9:28] you want me to succeed as mayor, he told
[9:30] voters, "If you want our city to
[9:32] succeed, then vote for Manddale." The
[9:34] dilemma for black Philadelphia voting
[9:37] for Jackson could embarrass good. But
[9:39] given that choice, an overwhelming
[9:41] majority did just that. The mayor really
[9:44] uh is our leader and we take leadership,
[9:48] I'm sure, from him, but we're able now
[9:50] to be more analytical.
[9:52] >> Good supporters here caught in the
[9:54] middle say the mayor's embarrassment
[9:55] will be shortlived that he simply did
[9:57] what he had to do for the city and we
[10:00] they say did what we had to do for
[10:02] ourselves.
[10:03] >> We are voting to support a man who has
[10:06] done his work in our community. So
[10:09] again, Jackson solidified his hold on
[10:11] the black vote and on what some are
[10:13] calling his presidency of black America.
[10:15] The questions now whether Jackson will
[10:18] try to reach out more to white America
[10:20] and whether white America will let him.
[10:23] Bob, CBS News, Philadelphia. In memorial
[10:26] services today at the National
[10:28] Cathedral, they remembered former
[10:29] Senator Frank Church of Idaho. In the
[10:31] 1960s, an early foe of the Indochant
[10:34] War. In the 1970s, a household name who
[10:37] coined a household phrase, "A rogue
[10:40] elephant on a rampage is what then
[10:42] Senate Foreign Relations Committee
[10:43] Chairman Church had called the CIA for
[10:45] its civil liberties violations at home
[10:47] and abroad." Church died of cancer this
[10:49] weekend. He was 59.
[10:58] >> No, it's just my
[11:01] >> Wait a minute. Still, do you have the
[11:02] travel insurance?
[11:03] >> No. No.
[11:04] >> I thought you had
[11:05] >> I got a new seal. I can't find it.
[11:06] >> It was your keys.
[11:07] >> Yeah. Frank,
[11:07] >> what's the problem?
[11:08] >> We've lost our travelers checks.
[11:10] >> You get a refund to your American
[11:11] Express machine down the hall.
[11:12] >> No, but they weren't. They weren't
[11:14] American Express.
[11:15] >> No, they weren't.
[11:16] >> What time's your flight?
[11:19] >> You know, nobody but American Express
[11:21] can get refunds of travelers check
[11:22] machines in most major US airports.
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[11:57] Tennessee authorities today captured two
[11:59] prisoners who yesterday walked away from
[12:01] a Fort Pel prison work detail outside
[12:03] prison walls. Another inmate is still at
[12:05] large. It was the second breakout from
[12:07] the facility in two months. And James
[12:09] Mcmanis reports security at the prison
[12:11] is now a public issue.
[12:13] Tracking dogs followed the two convicts
[12:15] and ran them to ground some 15 miles
[12:18] from the Fort Pillow State Prison.
[12:20] Convicted rapist Danny Miller and
[12:22] murderer Tony Ston were unarmed and they
[12:24] surrendered without a fight. The two men
[12:27] described as dangerous by prison
[12:28] officials were free just 24 hours. A few
[12:31] miles away at Rialto Crossing, state
[12:34] troopers and national guardsmen stopped
[12:36] a freight train, called in helicopters,
[12:38] and focus the manhunt on the last
[12:40] escapee Gary Sanders serving life for
[12:43] murder. There is growing public concern
[12:45] here that Fort Pillow Medium Security
[12:47] Prison is the wrong place for convicted
[12:49] killers. That it's dangerous to allow
[12:52] them to work on prison details outside
[12:54] the walls.
[12:55] >> Well, of course, I'm indignant.
[12:58] I'm indignant. That's one word.
[13:00] >> First thing, I'd put them back in the
[13:02] stripet uniform where you could see
[13:04] them, know they're coming. If they got
[13:07] loose, well, you could spot them a mile
[13:08] off. Seven weeks ago, five armed
[13:11] convicts fled another Fort Pillow work
[13:13] detail led a chase that left three
[13:16] people dead, including one of the
[13:17] escapees killed by police before his
[13:20] companion, James Kle, surrendered. A
[13:22] state attorney general's probe of Fort
[13:24] Pillow reportedly contains charges of
[13:26] drug dealing and gun running at the
[13:28] prison. And despite federal court
[13:30] pressure demanding reforms in the
[13:32] state's convict work programs, officials
[13:34] here have refused to order changes. But
[13:37] this latest escape of convicted killers
[13:39] may force a second look at Governor
[13:40] Lamar Alexander's widely publicized
[13:43] corrections plan for the 1980s. James
[13:46] Mcmanis, CBS News, Ripley, Tennessee.
[13:49] Marshville, North Carolina is a town of
[13:51] some 2100 people. But after a train
[13:53] derailment there today, it is not much
[13:55] more than a ghost town lit by flames fed
[13:58] by poisonous chemicals. Renee Ferguson
[14:00] reports.
[14:02] Fire from the tank of cars spread
[14:04] quickly to downtown Marshville,
[14:06] destroying a nearby cleaners, setting
[14:08] fire to the town hall and a restaurant.
[14:10] The Seabard Systems train was 30 miles
[14:13] from its destination in southern North
[14:15] Carolina when it derailed. The cause of
[14:17] the derailment is unknown, but the
[14:19] effect was a huge fire fueled by 281,000
[14:24] gallons of highly flammable and toxic
[14:26] methanol. Firefighters are not
[14:28] attempting to extinguish the blaze. They
[14:31] hope it will burn itself out. For 2100
[14:34] Marshville residents forced to leave
[14:35] their homes this morning, that means
[14:37] spending at least one night, maybe more,
[14:40] in evacuation centers with little else
[14:42] to do except worry about the possibility
[14:45] of an explosion.
[14:46] >> If that thing does go up, you know as
[14:48] well as I do what'll happen down there.
[14:49] There'll probably be a big grease spot
[14:50] in Marshall. That's the last thing any
[14:52] of us want. So, I'm just hoping and
[14:53] praying it doesn't happen. In addition
[14:55] to the flames and fumes from the
[14:56] methanol, county officials say they are
[14:58] also now concerned that the fire may
[15:01] spread to other chemicals and fertilizer
[15:04] stored nearby. Renee Ferguson, CBS News,
[15:07] Marshville, North Carolina. What could
[15:10] be another big setback for union
[15:11] workers, a unanimous ruling by the
[15:13] National Labor Relations Board that a
[15:15] company can legally transfer jobs from
[15:18] one place to another place out of state
[15:20] without bargaining first with the union
[15:22] even when the move will cost some
[15:24] workers their jobs. The reaction of an
[15:26] AFL CIO spokesman today, quote, further
[15:29] evidence that the allegedly impartial
[15:31] NLRB has become a tool of management.
[15:34] End of quotation. A Census Bureau report
[15:37] today indicated the gender gap in the
[15:39] workplace is narrowing. The report said
[15:41] that women held 30.5% of the nation's
[15:45] executive, managerial, and
[15:46] administrative positions in 1980. That's
[15:48] up from 18.5% in 1970. The increases
[15:53] among women as lawyers and women as
[15:55] judges were even sharper. But a
[15:57] researcher at the National Academy of
[15:58] Sciences today told a congressional
[16:00] panel that wage rates for jobs
[16:02] traditionally held by women remain
[16:04] depressed.
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[17:20] Word today of a new federal
[17:21] investigation of a potential safety
[17:23] defect in hundreds of thousands of cars.
[17:26] This time, the National Highway Traffic
[17:27] Safety Administration is looking into
[17:29] the possibility of locking brakes that
[17:32] could cause dangerous skids and spins in
[17:35] some of the more than 400,000
[17:37] 1979 model Ford Mustangs and Mercury
[17:40] Capri. Ford Motor Company says there is
[17:43] no problem with the brakes. Currently,
[17:45] the federal government is in federal
[17:46] court to demand the recall of more than
[17:48] a million General Motors X-C cars
[17:50] because of complaints about brakes that
[17:52] lock prematurely. The space shuttle crew
[17:55] made one last grab for history today and
[17:58] finally succeeded in snatching what it
[18:00] was after. For the first time ever,
[18:01] snatching a broken satellite out of
[18:03] space and reeling it in for repairs.
[18:05] Morton Dean reports that after failing
[18:07] to do the job by human hand on Sunday,
[18:09] they managed to do it today with a big
[18:11] robot arm.
[18:14] The wing satellite sat there in the
[18:16] cargo bay like a feather in their cap.
[18:18] And it was. Getting it there required
[18:21] some extraordinary piloting skill and a
[18:24] technological and engineering tour to
[18:26] force. A seemingly outofc control
[18:28] satellite tamed by signals from the
[18:30] ground. A dwindling supply of shuttle
[18:33] maneuvering fuel consumed sparingly. The
[18:36] 100ton spacecraft flew within 30 ft of
[18:38] the satellite. A bump could have meant
[18:40] disaster. Out of TV transmission range,
[18:43] the Challenger had chased the Solomax
[18:45] satellite and snared it with a bionic
[18:47] arm and brought it in for repairs.
[18:50] >> Okay, we've got it and we're in the
[18:52] process of putting in the air.
[18:55] >> Outstanding.
[18:57] >> This mission represents the end of an
[18:59] era of throwaway spacecrafts.
[19:02] And uh what we're doing here for the
[19:04] first time is spending about $45 million
[19:08] to $55 million to save a $235 million
[19:12] observatory. Well worth the investment.
[19:15] >> Today's satellite rescue mission was a
[19:17] lastditch effort. On Sunday, the arm and
[19:20] an astronaut failed to latch on to the
[19:22] partially disabled SolarMax to bring it
[19:24] in. Tomorrow, two astronauts will make a
[19:27] service call on the birth satellite to
[19:29] repair it. If that works, the satellite
[19:31] will be jettisoned to resume its study
[19:33] of the sun and the shuttle will come
[19:35] home to the Kennedy Space Center on
[19:37] Friday, one day late. Morton Dean, CBS
[19:40] News, Johnson Space Center, Houston.
[19:43] >> Soviet leader Constantine Chernenko
[19:45] today did a careful balancing act before
[19:47] the Communist Party Central Committee in
[19:49] Moscow. To his oldline supporters, he
[19:51] indicated a shakeup in the bureaucracy
[19:53] may not be necessary. to younger pilot
[19:55] bureau members brought in by the late
[19:57] Euran dropoff. Treno promised that
[19:59] economic and other domestic reforms
[20:01] would continue. There was speculation
[20:03] that this something for everyone speech
[20:05] indicated Chernenko soon would add the
[20:07] title of president to party chairman and
[20:10] military commanderin-chief. In
[20:12] Washington, the Pentagon today released
[20:13] a new 136page report on Soviet weapons.
[20:16] It spelled out in grim detail the latest
[20:18] estimates of Moscow's military might, a
[20:21] power that Defense Secretary Weineberger
[20:23] charged was aimed at quote, "World
[20:25] domination." It's just that simple.
[20:28] David Martin has the details.
[20:31] >> This is the Pentagon's third catalog of
[20:33] Soviet military power designed to
[20:35] convince the public that the Russians
[20:37] really are coming. It is crammed with
[20:39] photos of the newest Russian hardware.
[20:41] For instance, the Frogfoot ground attack
[20:43] jet being used in Afghanistan. And there
[20:45] are artist drawings of top secret
[20:47] installations such as this laser
[20:49] laboratory which US intelligence won't
[20:51] admit it is photographed. There are no
[20:53] startling revelations, rather a portrait
[20:55] of a military-industrial complex plowing
[20:58] relentlessly ahead. No matter what's
[21:00] happened in the world, no matter all the
[21:02] efforts that have been made to try to
[21:03] get reductions and reduction agreements,
[21:06] uh there isn't the slightest slowdown.
[21:08] They are not slowing down. Uh no matter
[21:10] what the external circumstances are. And
[21:12] indeed, uh, it it's hard to see, uh, if
[21:15] they ever will.
[21:16] >> Take cruise missiles, small pilotless
[21:18] aircraft armed with nuclear warheads.
[21:21] Much harder to shoot down than manned
[21:22] bombers, they give the US a distinct
[21:24] advantage in the nuclear balance of
[21:26] terror. But now, the Pentagon says the
[21:28] Russians are building five new cruise
[21:30] missiles of their own. This seal
[21:32] launched Soviet cruise missile could be
[21:34] deployed later this year aboard
[21:36] submarines like this one, which often
[21:37] operate off the east coast. Well out of
[21:40] missile range now, but well within range
[21:42] once the new cruise missiles are
[21:44] deployed. Longrange Bear bombers will
[21:46] carry the air launched cruise missile.
[21:48] So the Soviets have reopened the bear
[21:50] assembly line to crank out more of them.
[21:52] Some bear bombers already operate out of
[21:54] Cuba. And bears armed with nuclear
[21:56] cruise missiles in Cuba could
[21:58] precipitate a US Soviet crisis.
[22:01] Weinberger's message is clear. The US
[22:03] cannot slow its own defense buildup if
[22:05] it hopes to keep pace with the Soviets.
[22:07] But the message is not getting through.
[22:09] Already the House Armed Services
[22:11] Committee, normally the Pentagon's
[22:12] strongest backer on Capitol Hill, has
[22:14] made deep cuts in the new defense
[22:16] budget. David Martin, CBS News. The
[22:18] Pentagon. The heart of Rio de Janeiro's
[22:21] commercial district was taken over today
[22:22] by a flood of Brazilians estimated at
[22:24] more than half a million said to be the
[22:26] country's largest ever political
[22:27] demonstration. They were demanding a
[22:29] direct vote for president of Brazil.
[22:31] Something that has been suspended since
[22:33] the military took power 20 years ago.
[22:35] The only reported trouble occurred when
[22:37] police tried to remove a leftist workers
[22:40] party banner calling for a general
[22:41] strike later this month. In Too, France
[22:44] today, a military funeral was held for
[22:46] nine French paratroopers killed in a
[22:49] landmine explosion Saturday in the
[22:51] African nation of Chad. Suddenly, the
[22:53] griefstricken brother of one of the dead
[22:54] soldiers raced his car at full speed
[22:56] toward French Defense Minister Charles
[22:58] Carneu. Government bodyguards opened
[23:00] fire on the car, which went out of
[23:02] control, knocking over a casket. Aru and
[23:05] other mourers scattered. None was
[23:07] injured. When the car finally stopped,
[23:09] police dragged out the man said to be
[23:11] seriously wounded.
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[25:13] chariots of dirt.
[25:16] [screaming]
[25:19] >> 30 sometimes 40 times a day they're off.
[25:23] It's 440 yds of flatout fury.
[25:26] >> Can Walt Wheeler put the run on him? Oh,
[25:28] and it came right. Hang on to it. Now
[25:29] look at that. Bastion Ranch. Bastion
[25:31] Ranch went to the cherry and gutter.
[25:34] >> These are Pocutello, Idaho's chariots of
[25:36] fire. The World Chariot racing
[25:37] championships. High-rung horses pulling
[25:40] little carts and drivers as fast as they
[25:42] can. Drag racing on dirt.
[25:44] >> You ought to ride one of them.
[25:45] >> Why?
[25:46] >> Huh?
[25:47] >> Why?
[25:47] >> Well, just the thrill of it.
[25:52] Today's Pocutello Benhur could be your
[25:54] banker, your butcher, your waitress.
[25:56] Like Kathy Owen, dragged behind a
[25:58] runaway rig once but not hurt.
[26:00] >> Got a belly full of dirt. My belt buckle
[26:03] was scooping it up. [screaming]
[26:06] >> Noisy, nervy racing. It's usually 23
[26:09] seconds start to finish. The prize money
[26:11] is not worth risking their necks. Even
[26:12] the grandstand gamblers do better
[26:14] trading fives and tens.
[26:16] >> You can win a 100. You can win a 100 if
[26:18] you're lucky.
[26:19] >> How much can you lose?
[26:21] 100 or two.
[26:22] >> Sometimes taking the trophy is like
[26:24] winning the state lottery the way the
[26:25] relatives and the friends a guy never
[26:27] knew crowd into the picture. Looks like
[26:29] the whole town was
[26:30] >> basically that does happen. [laughter]
[26:33] >> It's nothing fancy but nothing phony
[26:35] here. It's 74year-old rancher Art
[26:37] Hudsmith saying the biggest challenge is
[26:39] get down to the other end first.
[26:43] >> Art got there second. Bob McNamera CBS
[26:46] News Pocatello.
[26:50] And that's the CBS Evening News for this
[26:52] Tuesday. We'll have reports on the
[26:53] voting in the Pennsylvania primary if
[26:55] warranted through the evening. And we'll
[26:57] have a special wrap-up broadcast about
[26:58] the primary following your late night
[27:00] local news. Until then, Dan Rather
[27:02] reporting from CBS News election
[27:03] headquarters in New York.
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[28:44] Richard Nixon [music] speaks out on
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[29:01] >> did you think