CBS Evening News - 1999-05-01

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[0:02] Promising freedom, three US POWs may

[0:05] taste freedom tomorrow after

[0:07] negotiations by Jesse Jackson. A tourist

[0:10] tragedy on a resort lake, 12 die in a

[0:12] boating accident. A demand of immunity

[0:15] by the parents of high school gunmen

[0:16] Eric Harris. While in the shadow of

[0:19] Littleton, the NRA finds a rude welcome.

[0:24] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:28] with John Roberts.

[0:31] Good evening. I'm Sharyl Attkisson in

[0:33] for John Roberts, who reports tonight

[0:35] from Belgrade that after a month in

[0:37] captivity, three American POWs held in

[0:40] Yugoslavia may see freedom tomorrow.

[0:47] It was the moment that everyone was

[0:49] waiting for and no one ever expected.

[0:54] After a day of diplomacy at a

[0:56] face-to-face meeting with Slobodan

[0:57] Milosevic, Reverend Jesse Jackson

[0:59] announced the three prisoners would be

[1:01] going home. After the meeting today with

[1:03] President Milosevic himself and with the

[1:06] seven of his key advisers,

[1:09] they decided unanimously to release

[1:12] the three Americans held captive and to

[1:15] allow them to leave with us tomorrow.

[1:18] Jackson came to Belgrade with the

[1:20] specific purpose of negotiating their

[1:22] release and on Friday evening had an

[1:24] emotional meeting with them, bringing

[1:26] Steven Gonzales, Christopher Stone, and

[1:28] Andrew Ramirez together in the same room

[1:31] for the first time since they were

[1:32] captured. Let's pray.

[1:35] The announcement that they would be

[1:36] handed over in the morning will no doubt

[1:38] cause consternation in the hallways of

[1:40] Western powers. Jackson said NATO should

[1:43] show restraint, at least for a short

[1:45] time. These three soldiers are going to

[1:46] be in three military installations

[1:49] tonight,

[1:50] which are targets.

[1:52] How ironic and tragic it would be if

[1:53] while they're getting dressed to go

[1:55] home,

[1:56] they were killed. So you would like to

[1:58] see the bombing halted for at least one

[1:59] night? I'm certain that we can give

[2:01] peace a chance. Mr. Jackson, very

[2:03] welcome to Belgrade. Jackson maintained

[2:06] that the prisoners were of little

[2:07] political value to Milosevic. But by

[2:10] letting them go, Milosevic scores an

[2:12] enormous public relations coup, a

[2:14] gesture of benevolence, even while the

[2:16] bombs are falling all around him.

[2:19] And the Yugoslavian leader has given

[2:20] Jackson a letter to deliver to President

[2:22] Clinton, asking for direct meetings on

[2:25] the future of Kosovo.

[2:27] Milosevic's decision to hand over the

[2:29] three servicemen has shown that he is

[2:30] willing to compromise on at least one

[2:32] issue. But the future course of the war

[2:35] will depend on whether he is willing to

[2:36] give up much more than three US

[2:39] soldiers.

[2:40] John Roberts, CBS News, Belgrade.

[2:43] Of course, nobody was happier to hear of

[2:46] the impending release of the American

[2:47] prisoners than their families here in

[2:49] the US, even if they are a little wary

[2:52] of celebrating too early. Sandra Hughes

[2:54] has their reaction.

[2:56] The parents of Sergeant Steven Gonzales

[2:59] had just received the news they'd waited

[3:00] a month to hear. It came in a phone call

[3:03] from the Army Chief of Staff. It looks

[3:05] that it is positive they are going to be

[3:07] released. Gilbert and Rosie Gonzales

[3:10] said they were shocked. It was just

[3:11] yesterday they were able to see and hear

[3:13] their son for the first time.

[3:19] That was a very emotional thing because

[3:24] um

[3:25] we haven't

[3:26] he knows how much we love him.

[3:29] We know how much he loves us.

[3:31] There's a very special bond there.

[3:33] Before yesterday, all the soldiers'

[3:35] families had were letters and Red Cross

[3:37] accounts of their health. Yesterday,

[3:39] pictures confirmed their wounds had

[3:41] healed, though emotions were still raw.

[3:44] And to my wife, Trisha, and my son,

[3:46] Ryan, I love you and see you in the

[3:48] morning on the school bus.

[3:50] Sergeant Christopher Stone's wife isn't

[3:52] talking today, but in his hometown of

[3:54] Capac, Michigan, a spokesman said his

[3:57] family is cautiously optimistic. They

[3:59] have been very careful to keep the

[4:02] situation in perspective. They're very

[4:04] optimistic, they're very encouraged,

[4:05] they're very excited. Family of

[4:07] Specialist Andy Ramirez waited for word

[4:09] at his East Los Angeles home.

[4:12] I'm going to just cry when I see him and

[4:14] then I'll hug him and I will not let go.

[4:17] I will not let go.

[4:18] But without word that their children

[4:20] have left Belgrade, none of the families

[4:22] is ready to celebrate yet. Sandra

[4:25] Hughes, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[4:28] The Clinton administration appears to

[4:29] have rejected outright any idea of a

[4:32] goodwill gesture towards Serbia in

[4:34] response to the possible release of the

[4:36] POWs. Bill Plante is live at the White

[4:38] House with more. Bill? Cheryl, the

[4:40] president will speak later tonight at a

[4:42] black tie event here in Washington, but

[4:44] so far there is no suggestion that the

[4:46] US sees the promised release of the

[4:48] three POWs as any kind of breakthrough

[4:51] toward ending the war. Officials here

[4:53] say that this is good news, of course,

[4:55] but then they quickly point out that the

[4:57] US is offering nothing in return. No

[4:59] deal, no quid pro quo. They have been

[5:03] conspicuously silent on Jesse Jackson's

[5:05] request for some kind of reciprocal

[5:07] gesture, also on his request that the

[5:09] bombing be halted tonight, the last

[5:11] night of the three men's captivity.

[5:14] And at the Pentagon, they simply go on

[5:16] to say, as they have before, that the

[5:18] air campaign is directed against

[5:20] Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing.

[5:24] Um this is a campaign that this is

[5:27] designed to stop his ability to stop him

[5:31] from um his ethnic brutality, from

[5:33] trying to depopulate Kosovo. And if he

[5:36] refuses to do that um on his own, our

[5:39] goal is to uh is to degrade his ability

[5:42] to continue this campaign.

[5:45] The administration has gone out of its

[5:46] way to continue signaling that Jesse

[5:48] Jackson's mission was completely

[5:50] unofficial. So while everyone here will

[5:52] be delighted if the three men are

[5:54] released tomorrow, they send the signal

[5:56] that there is no compromise intended.

[5:59] Cheryl?

[6:00] Bill Plante at the White House, thanks.

[6:02] Word of the release comes on a deadly

[6:04] day in the war over Kosovo. The Serbs

[6:07] claim at least 60 people died when a

[6:09] NATO missile hit a civilian bus near

[6:11] Kosovo's capital. Witnesses say the

[6:13] blast split the bus in two, sending part

[6:15] of it off a bridge. No word from NATO.

[6:19] Tomorrow night on 60 Minutes,

[6:21] correspondent Dan Rather in Belgrade has

[6:23] an exclusive interview with Mira

[6:24] Markovich, the wife of Yugoslav

[6:26] President Slobodan Milosevic, her first

[6:29] television interview with a Western

[6:30] journalist. Still to come on the CBS

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[8:22] A quiet day of sightseeing ended in

[8:25] tragedy today when a packed tourist boat

[8:27] carrying 20 people sank on Lake Hamilton

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[8:32] Television affiliate KTHV in Little Rock

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[8:37] 12 people are confirmed dead here at

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[9:00] None of them had life jackets. Eight

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[9:05] They all said it happened so fast. I

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[9:09] like somebody opened the tailgate on a

[9:10] pickup. I lost my babies and my husband

[9:13] and my daughter-in-law on that boat.

[9:16] Police officers are interviewing the

[9:18] driver of the boat. She survived, but

[9:21] the question is why did it go down? No

[9:23] one seems to know that answer.

[9:25] From Hot Springs, Arkansas, Brian Black

[9:27] for CBS News.

[9:29] The parents of Eric Harris, the accused

[9:31] leader of the Columbine High School

[9:33] shooting, are refusing to talk to

[9:35] police. But the parents of the other

[9:37] accused shooter, Dylan Klebold, said

[9:39] today they have been interviewed and are

[9:41] willing to cooperate further. Bill

[9:43] Whitaker has more on the investigation.

[9:47] These crosses for the dead, a sign of

[9:49] this community's pain and its conflict.

[9:51] The father of a slain student destroyed

[9:54] the two raised in memory of the

[9:55] Columbine killers, calling them a

[9:57] dishonor to the 13 victims. Yeah. And

[10:00] the rift grew wider today on word the

[10:02] parents of gunmen Eric Harris are

[10:04] refusing to talk to investigators

[10:06] without immunity from prosecution.

[10:09] Unless there's something to hide, why

[10:10] would one ask for immunity? So, will you

[10:12] grant them immunity? No, we uh

[10:15] I've spoke to their lawyers and I've

[10:18] told them that we will not grant them or

[10:19] anyone else at this time immunity.

[10:21] Jefferson County Deputy District

[10:23] Attorney Mark Pautler says the Harrises

[10:25] are considered witnesses, not suspects

[10:27] in the crime. I have no reason to

[10:29] believe that they've done anything

[10:30] wrong, so uh

[10:33] it's kind of a

[10:34] surprise that they would want immunity.

[10:36] But legal observers say comments like

[10:38] this I I think I'd be a little concerned

[10:39] about my son's room if I went in there

[10:41] and I found sawed-off shotgun

[10:43] barrels laying in a The parents should

[10:44] have should have been aware of may have

[10:46] the Harrises fearing legal action for

[10:48] negligence. There's a great deal of

[10:50] public pressure to bring charges against

[10:52] someone, and they are folks who might be

[10:55] in the crosshairs. So, their attorneys

[10:57] have probably recommended to them until

[10:59] this quiets down, until we see this the

[11:01] way this investigation is going to sort

[11:02] out, you shouldn't talk. Today, someone

[11:05] erected two small crosses for gunmen

[11:08] Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, a true

[11:10] sign of the pain and conflict still

[11:13] tearing at the heart of this town.

[11:15] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Littleton,

[11:17] Colorado.

[11:19] The National Rifle Association, target

[11:21] of much anger in Colorado, claimed

[11:24] nonprofit laws prevented it from

[11:25] canceling today's convention in Denver.

[11:28] And as Randall Pinkston reports, that

[11:30] anger spilled into the streets today.

[11:35] At the Colorado State Capitol, the

[11:37] anguish over the Columbine massacre

[11:39] turned to protest.

[11:41] They rang a bell for the victims and

[11:43] heard a father still mourning his dead

[11:46] 15-year-old son demand stronger gun

[11:48] control laws. A TEC-9

[11:51] semiautomatic 30-bullet weapon like that

[11:54] that killed my son

[11:57] is not used to kill deer.

[11:59] It has no useful purpose. No more guns!

[12:04] 8,000 strong, they targeted the National

[12:06] Rifle Association, which scaled back but

[12:09] refused to cancel its annual meeting

[12:11] here. The community is suffering, and

[12:13] people have just had enough.

[12:15] Inside the hotel, staunch NRA members,

[12:18] feeling under attack,

[12:20] turned out in large numbers to defend

[12:22] their right to be here. When an isolated

[12:25] terrible event occurs, our phones ring

[12:28] demanding that the NRA explain the

[12:31] inexplicable.

[12:33] Why us?

[12:34] Because their story needs a villain.

[12:37] In many communities out here where guns

[12:38] are nearly as common as bicycles, gun

[12:40] enthusiasts insist there's no connection

[12:42] between the Columbine tragedy and

[12:44] weapons.

[12:46] It's not the weapons, it's the choices

[12:48] of the people that have them.

[12:50] 37-year-old Ron Riffel is teaching his

[12:52] son and daughter gun safety. Make sure

[12:54] the barrel is it has no bullet. Riffel

[12:58] thinks every gun owner should be

[12:59] trained. Why do you put a driver in a

[13:01] vehicle that couldn't pass the driving

[13:03] test? I mean, you know, then you have a

[13:05] danger out there. Gun safety or gun

[13:07] control? The tragedy here provides new

[13:10] ammunition in the debate over the place

[13:12] of guns in America. Randall Pinkston,

[13:14] CBS News, Denver.

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[15:14] A third victim died today from the

[15:16] latest in a string of London bombings

[15:18] targeting minority groups. About 1,000

[15:20] people marched through the city today

[15:22] denouncing hate groups like the one that

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[15:30] The Air Force is scrambling tonight to

[15:32] recover from another embarrassing and

[15:34] expensive failure. A military satellite

[15:37] launched yesterday is stuck in a useless

[15:39] orbit. Stephanie Lambadakis tells us

[15:42] it's just the latest trouble involving a

[15:44] Titan rocket.

[15:46] What looked like a picture-perfect

[15:48] launch turned into another

[15:49] billion-dollar disaster, and another

[15:52] communication satellite spinning useless

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[15:59] satellite faltered, leaving it 19,000

[16:02] miles short of target.

[16:03] >> They might be able to get it into the

[16:05] right orbit,

[16:06] but the odds don't look very good. This

[16:08] is the third straight failure to get a

[16:10] badly needed communication satellite

[16:12] into space. What's frustrating for the

[16:14] Air Force, there is no common link to

[16:16] the disasters. Certainly, when we have

[16:19] three failures in a row of any system,

[16:22] or three failures of in a row of a

[16:23] combination of system, something is not

[16:26] right. With each satellite costing

[16:28] nearly a billion dollars, the losses are

[16:30] staggering. The Pentagon says defense

[16:33] capabilities are not being compromised,

[16:35] but the newer satellites are needed to

[16:37] help military forces like those over

[16:39] Serbia communicate secretly and quickly.

[16:42] There are a lot of our military forces

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[16:46] billion dollars on the satellite, and

[16:48] this sort of loss is clearly a big

[16:50] setback. The Pentagon switched to the

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[16:54] space shuttle Challenger blew up.

[16:57] Ironically, the shuttle has been much

[16:58] safer with only one mishap in 93

[17:01] launches. The Pentagon has halted its

[17:04] launch program to look for answers,

[17:06] leaving badly needed satellites stranded

[17:09] on Earth.

[17:10] Stephanie Lambadakis, CBS News, The

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[19:25] The Columbine shootings, gun control,

[19:27] and the latest in Kosovo with Senators

[19:29] McCain and Schumer, plus presidential

[19:31] candidate Dan Quayle on Face the Nation

[19:33] Sunday.

[19:37] President Clinton wants to impose tough

[19:39] new pollution standards requiring

[19:41] vehicles to run 80% cleaner. The

[19:43] administration is proposing only

[19:45] low-sulfur gasoline be sold, estimating

[19:48] it would increase prices by a penny or

[19:51] two a gallon. And for the first time,

[19:53] Mr. Clinton wants SUVs and light pickups

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[19:59] Every working parent knows that the

[20:00] conflict that can occur when the needs

[20:02] of the kids conflict with the job, but

[20:05] some workers claim they have been

[20:06] demoted or even fired simply because

[20:09] they have children or are expecting.

[20:11] Jeffrey Kofman reports on the effort to

[20:13] ban discrimination against parents in

[20:15] the workplace.

[20:17] Okay.

[20:18] For Kathy Williamson, life should be

[20:20] sweet. She and her husband Gerard have a

[20:22] new baby girl and Kathy's teaching

[20:24] career seemed to be taking off.

[20:26] >> The last five evaluations were all

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[20:30] unsatisfactory. The plunge in Kathy's

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[20:34] after she told her principal she was

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[20:42] convinced there's a connection between

[20:44] your unsatisfactory rating and your

[20:48] pregnancy. Absolutely.

[20:50] Others are convinced too that working

[20:52] mothers and sometimes fathers are denied

[20:55] promotions or even demoted because

[20:57] employers assume they're less committed

[20:59] to their jobs. Pregnancy discrimination

[21:01] is already outlawed, but there is no

[21:03] protection for working parents. They're

[21:05] not taken as seriously. They see that

[21:08] their career path has really been shut

[21:10] off.

[21:10] It is impossible to say just how many

[21:12] parents face discrimination at work.

[21:14] Eight states have already outlawed it

[21:16] and in Washington later this month

[21:18] Democrats plan to introduce legislation

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[21:21] nationwide. There's not a real

[21:25] proof of any problem out there and

[21:26] secondly, there just seems to be a

[21:27] political issue

[21:29] thrown out there frankly to troll for

[21:30] votes. I think the problem is huge. I

[21:33] think nobody wants to recognize it. As

[21:35] Kathy Williamson sees it, it is time for

[21:37] the workplace to catch up to the reality

[21:39] of employees who want to have rewarding

[21:41] lives at home and on the job. Jeffrey

[21:44] Kofman, CBS News, Lynbrook, New York.

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[24:34] granted, but our Steve Hartman has found

[24:37] that not every lasting image lasts and

[24:40] things aren't always what they first

[24:41] appear when everybody has a story. Hey.

[24:45] Okay, North Carolina. Whiteville, North

[24:48] Carolina.

[24:52] When I started this, I would call people

[24:53] >> Okay, here we go. here and try and

[24:56] figure out right away what their story

[24:57] was. Coburn. But I have since learned

[25:00] that these things take time. Is this the

[25:01] Coburn residence? So, when Ann Coburn, a

[25:04] 67-year-old housewife, answered the

[25:06] phone, I didn't worry about where it

[25:09] would all lead. I just found the

[25:10] beginning and let her bittersweet story

[25:13] unravel from there.

[25:16] I asked her to to marry me. And like I

[25:18] say, I gave it to her and she started

[25:20] crying. I thought I'd made a big

[25:22] mistake. I said, "How can I get my money

[25:24] back?"

[25:27] They met when she was five. Ann lived at

[25:29] 305 North Madison. Dick lived at 203

[25:32] South Madison. They were married on the

[25:34] same street and in fact, still live on

[25:36] the same street.

[25:38] But Ann's favorite place isn't on this

[25:41] shady avenue.

[25:43] Quite to the contrary. I really enjoy

[25:45] the beach.

[25:46] It's just an old friend. Even though

[25:48] this so-called friend has been

[25:50] remarkably nasty. There was absolutely

[25:53] nothing left. Nothing.

[25:56] In '54, Hurricane Hazel destroyed their

[25:59] summer house. So, they bought again at a

[26:01] place called Bald Head Island. It was

[26:04] the prettiest piece of property on this

[26:06] beach. Another storm came and it's still

[26:09] a beautiful place to live. No, I'm it's

[26:12] further out there.

[26:14] If you're a tuna.

[26:15] See that pelican is sitting on almost on

[26:18] my lawn.

[26:18] >> On your front porch, huh?

[26:21] NOW, YOU'D THINK THAT WOULD discourage

[26:22] even the most devoted beach lovers. You

[26:25] might as well laugh as cry, hadn't you?

[26:27] >> But the Coburns bought again. Hope it's

[26:30] going to get any better than this.

[26:31] Actually, Dick could take it or leave

[26:33] it. It's Ann who's drawn here.

[26:36] Just like when my mother died,

[26:39] that was the first thing I wanted to do

[26:41] was go to the beach and

[26:43] just walk by myself.

[26:45] And it helped.

[26:48] When she's here, Ann will spend hours

[26:50] walking through the sand. She looks for

[26:53] shells, feathers, and hermit crabs at

[26:55] the water's edge I'm going up here. and

[26:57] simply looks off the highest dune. Now,

[27:00] Peter can't fight that. Because Ann

[27:02] knows how quickly Mother Nature can take

[27:05] it all away. Feel like you can see

[27:07] forever. And this time,

[27:09] I'm not talking about her beach house.

[27:13] See,

[27:14] I I you're a blur. Six years ago, Ann

[27:17] was diagnosed with macular degeneration.

[27:19] >> see your face and your hair

[27:22] and your

[27:23] hand on your chin.

[27:25] But as far as really seeing your

[27:27] features,

[27:29] I I can't see that.

[27:31] So, what's the end result?

[27:32] Blindness.

[27:35] When Ann heard the prognosis, she made a

[27:37] conscious effort to notice even more. To

[27:40] walk

[27:41] even slower. So, if and when that

[27:44] disease ever steals her precious sight,

[27:46] her favorite views will be clearly

[27:49] etched.

[27:50] When the waves

[27:52] arch,

[27:54] when that little fine white spray starts

[27:57] down,

[27:58] uh I'll know it.

[28:01] There you go.

[28:03] Where are they going? Until then,

[28:05] Breckinridge County, Kentucky. I'm Steve

[28:08] Hartman, CBS News in Whiteville, North

[28:11] Carolina.

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