NBC Nightly News - 1985-12-06

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[0:01] Secretary Schultz calls Cubans and

[0:03] Soviets in Central America a cancer.

[0:05] There's a controversial Minnesota

[0:07] decision on when life begins and a

[0:09] reunion of the chosen few very brave

[0:12] men.

[0:14] >> NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokoff.

[0:18] >> Good evening. Secretary of State George

[0:20] Schultz today led the administration

[0:22] charge against the role of Soviets and

[0:24] Cubans in Nicaragua. He called them a

[0:27] cancer and he vigorously defended the

[0:29] Contras, those are the Americanbacked

[0:31] rebels, shooting down a Soviet built

[0:33] helicopter in Nicaragua. 14 people were

[0:36] killed, including two Cubans. And this

[0:38] was Schultz's reaction.

[0:40] >> Thank goodness that they did get a hold

[0:43] of some weapons that can knock these

[0:45] choppers down, and we're able to use

[0:47] them. They have gotten a hold of

[0:49] missiles, surfaceto-air missiles, and

[0:52] they have figured out how to use them

[0:55] and they've used it effectively in this

[0:57] case. And I say fine, I'm all for it.

[1:02] >> And NBC's Fred Francis reports from the

[1:04] Pentagon tonight that he's been told by

[1:06] intelligence sources and Contra leaders

[1:08] that the Contras, those are the American

[1:10] backed rebels, brought down two Soviet

[1:12] built helicopters this week. According

[1:14] to these sources, the Contras used a

[1:16] Sovietbuilt surfaceto-air missile, which

[1:18] is handheld, to bring down the choppers.

[1:21] The Contras are known to have a few of

[1:23] those missiles. Nicaragua reacted with

[1:26] anger to these latest charges from the

[1:28] administration, recalling its ambassador

[1:30] to Washington. And in Nicaragua itself,

[1:32] President Daniel Ortega said, "This is

[1:34] the beginning of a new and highly

[1:36] dangerous crisis." NBC's Mike Bcher is

[1:39] in Nicaragua tonight.

[1:42] The workday was cut short by Sandinista

[1:44] leaders who asked thousands of their

[1:45] followers to protest at the US embassy.

[1:48] Monaga was making a point to Washington

[1:50] that it believes the culturous surface

[1:51] to air missiles have seriously escalated

[1:53] Nicaragua's war and perhaps the war in

[1:56] nearby El Salvador.

[1:58] Responding to praise of the missile

[2:00] attack by Secretary of State Schultz,

[2:02] Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said,

[2:04] quote, "The use of this missile by the

[2:06] Contras opens the door to other guerilla

[2:08] forces in Central America to use the

[2:10] same weapon." It was a clear reference

[2:12] to Salvador and guerrillas who could use

[2:14] the same type of missile to shoot down

[2:16] US-made helicopters supplied to the

[2:18] Salvadoran army. Ortega said the United

[2:21] States was mining Nicaragua's skies as

[2:23] it had mined Nicaragua's ports last

[2:25] year.

[2:27] The culture has proudly displayed a

[2:28] surfaceto-air missile to an NBC camera

[2:30] crew last summer. Their inexperience

[2:33] with the weapon evidence then apparently

[2:35] has been overcome.

[2:36] >> The missiles threaten a growing fleet of

[2:38] Soviet built helicopters on which the

[2:40] Sandinista army relies heavily. US

[2:43] officials contend that many of the

[2:44] pilots are Cubans.

[2:47] The contras have learned to fear the

[2:49] sounds of rockets blasting from the pods

[2:51] of Nicaragua's MI8 and MI24 helicopters.

[2:55] The flow of Eastern block weapons to the

[2:57] Santinista army has surged in recent

[2:59] months. So have counterar acquisitions.

[3:02] Both sides are recruiting more men and

[3:04] giving them better weapons. Weapons

[3:06] which President Ortega now implies could

[3:08] be used by guerrillas fighting Central

[3:10] American governments friendly to the

[3:12] United States. Mike Bcher, NBC News,

[3:14] Managa.

[3:16] On another matter today, Secretary of

[3:18] Defense Casper Weinberger, an outspoken

[3:20] critic of SALT 2, that's the arms

[3:21] control agreement with the Soviets,

[3:23] charged that the Russians have installed

[3:25] 27 new long range missiles, SS25s.

[3:29] He said they have been deployed at a

[3:31] very rapid rate. That's a clear

[3:33] violation of SAT 2 limits. This is the

[3:35] first time that Weinberger has used

[3:37] exact numbers for the SS25s.

[3:40] And in Belgium and in France today,

[3:42] terrorists bomb three sites, two of them

[3:44] involving NATO. A group called the

[3:46] Fighting Communist Cells took

[3:48] responsibility for the NATO attacks that

[3:50] included an attack on a NATO office in

[3:52] Versailles, France, which is responsible

[3:54] for operating an allied pipeline. The

[3:57] pipeline itself was also attacked. No

[3:59] one was hurt.

[4:02] But in the Belgian city of Leazge, one

[4:04] man was killed when terrorists bombed a

[4:05] courthouse, apparently believing that

[4:07] the Belgian justice minister was there.

[4:09] He was not. No one is sure who is

[4:11] responsible for this attack.

[4:14] Also coming up in this program tonight,

[4:16] special segment, John Hart's report on

[4:18] how the missing kids case in this

[4:20] country is overstated.

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[6:10] >> In Malta today, officials said the only

[6:12] surviving hijacker of that Egyptian

[6:14] airliner soon will be charged with

[6:15] murder as soon as he is well enough to

[6:17] appear in court. From his hospital bed,

[6:20] he identified himself as Muhammad Ali

[6:22] Razak. He said that despite his Tunisian

[6:25] passport, he is a Palestinian. He said

[6:28] there were only two other hijackers and

[6:30] they boarded the plane in Athens,

[6:31] Greece. The hijack ended when Egyptian

[6:34] commandos stormed the plane. Altogether

[6:36] 60 people were killed. It was during

[6:39] another hijacking of the Achilles Lauro

[6:41] that Alex Oda lost his life here in the

[6:44] United States. He was killed by a bomb

[6:46] planted in the California office of the

[6:48] American Arab Anti-Discrimination

[6:50] League. Whoever caused his death still

[6:52] is at large, but NBC's Carl Stern

[6:54] reports tonight that there is now new

[6:56] pressure to move against terrorists who

[6:58] strike at American Arabs. A week ago,

[7:01] the organization's Washington DC office

[7:03] was gutted by fire. In Boston, a bomb

[7:06] found outside its office injured a

[7:08] policeman. Near Los Angeles, a bomb

[7:10] blast killed the organization's regional

[7:12] director. Each office belonged to the

[7:15] American Arab Anti-Discrimination

[7:16] Committee, and many Arab Americans, such

[7:19] as these who met in Los Angeles last

[7:20] night, are angry.

[7:22] >> Uh the threat exists against any

[7:24] ArabAmerican. Um certainly any uh

[7:27] ArabAmerican that attempts to voice his

[7:30] opinion uh on something that uh is is is

[7:34] as delicate as uh Middle East foreign

[7:36] policy.

[7:37] >> Even though we've been we've been

[7:39] threatened, even though our friends are

[7:41] being killed and our offices are being

[7:44] bombed, we are still here and we're not

[7:46] going to stop.

[7:47] >> Today, former senators James Avaris and

[7:49] Charles Percy declaring that Arab

[7:51] Americans are under attack went to meet

[7:53] with the FBI director. Afterward,

[7:55] outside his office, they said they had

[7:57] gone over a list with the director of

[7:58] people who might be responsible.

[8:00] >> It was evidence that would allow the FBI

[8:03] to uh continue looking at the uh and

[8:06] various people that I have turned up

[8:07] evidence on, and that's all. It's it's

[8:09] nothing. It wouldn't be useful for me to

[8:10] give names.

[8:11] >> Okay. But these are individuals whom you

[8:13] suspect were involved.

[8:14] >> Yes.

[8:16] >> The incidents were being investigated as

[8:18] arson. Now, the FBI is checking whether

[8:20] there is a civil rights conspiracy

[8:22] against the Arab Americans. Militant

[8:24] groups such as the Jewish Defense League

[8:26] denied responsibility and the

[8:28] investigation is focused now on certain

[8:30] individuals rather than on any group.

[8:32] Carl Stern, NBC News, Washington.

[8:36] When life begins. That's a question

[8:38] hotly debated in this country. Some say

[8:40] that it begins at conception, some when

[8:42] there is a detectable heartbeat. But the

[8:45] state supreme court of Minnesota has now

[8:47] ruled that a fetus is not a human being

[8:49] until it is born into the world. NBC's

[8:52] Jim Cumins reports tonight on the case

[8:54] that led to this ruling.

[8:57] >> More than a year ago, John Sodto was

[8:59] charged with drunk driving and homicide

[9:01] when his car struck another one driven

[9:03] by Janet Johnson, who was 8 and a half

[9:05] months pregnant. Mrs. Johnson survived

[9:07] the accident, but her unborn child died,

[9:09] prompting the homicide charge. The

[9:11] Minnesota Supreme Court has thrown out

[9:13] the murder charge against Sodto, saying

[9:15] a fetus is not a human being until it is

[9:17] born alive. The parents are angry. these

[9:20] babies are human beings. Um, just

[9:23] because they don't happen to be outside

[9:25] of the womb shouldn't really make any

[9:26] difference that they are capable of

[9:28] living on their own.

[9:30] >> At this point, only 16 states have

[9:33] so-called fetus laws, laws that make it

[9:35] possible to hold someone accountable for

[9:37] the death of a fetus in a case like

[9:39] this. The prosecutor in this case plans

[9:41] to seek a similar law in Minnesota.

[9:43] >> The argument that we put forth is that

[9:46] the um medical science has changed and

[9:48] that the definition condition, excuse

[9:50] me, the definition of a human being um

[9:53] has a lot more to do now with viability

[9:56] in in the womb than it does with uh

[9:58] being born alive.

[9:59] >> Minnesota legislators are concerned

[10:01] about the sensitive issue of when life

[10:03] begins.

[10:04] >> Perhaps the easiest way to do it would

[10:07] be to come up with some sort of proposal

[10:10] aimed at wrongful death against a fetus

[10:12] without addressing the issue of whether

[10:14] or not the fetus is a person or is not a

[10:16] person. One Minnesota lawmaker has

[10:18] already written a bill that would make

[10:19] it a crime to harm a fetus under certain

[10:21] circumstances. The legislature will

[10:23] consider that bill when it returns here

[10:25] in February. Jim Cumins, NBC News, St.

[10:28] Paul, Minnesota.

[10:30] Earlier this week, Brian Ross reported

[10:32] on this program that the alleged mafia

[10:34] boss, Michael Franchesy, was under

[10:36] federal investigation on charges of

[10:38] cheating the government of hundreds of

[10:40] millions of dollars in gasoline taxes.

[10:42] Franchesy refused to be interviewed by

[10:44] NBC News, but today he told WNBC TV in

[10:47] New York that the charges against him

[10:49] are untrue and part of an FBI vendetta

[10:52] against him because his father was an

[10:54] organized crime figure. He said he was

[10:56] in the gasoline business, but that he

[10:58] had done nothing illegal.

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[12:39] >> Special segment tonight. Who's missing

[12:41] and why? Missing kids. It's one of the

[12:44] phenomena of our time. The terrifying

[12:47] possibility that someone may grab your

[12:48] child and disappear. Parents groups, new

[12:51] law enforcement techniques, television

[12:53] programs have all grown out of this

[12:54] concern. Yet NBC's John Hart now has

[12:58] discovered the problem may be greatly

[13:00] overstated. Tamara Taylor, 59 in 85 lbs,

[13:05] brown eyes, black hair, brown skin.

[13:08] >> Video mug shots of Tammy Taylor of

[13:10] Maywood, Illinois, and everyone else in

[13:13] her school, first grade through 8th.

[13:15] Faces on file. Why?

[13:18] >> So we don't get kidnapped.

[13:21] >> Because there are a lot of people out

[13:22] there that um that take children.

[13:25] >> When they when they um find them, they

[13:27] usually be dead or raped or something.

[13:30] This is not a bad people out here. You

[13:32] know, this is America.

[13:34] >> Actually, it's Emerson Elementary School

[13:36] where there hasn't been a kidnapping.

[13:38] Not in 10 years at least. It's Illinois

[13:41] where state police have only 1,400 cases

[13:44] of missing kids statewide. And only 1%

[13:48] of those may be victims of foul play.

[13:51] Most are runaways. And they discover

[13:53] that more than 95% return home safe

[13:56] within 72 hours. The Maywood kids don't

[13:59] know this.

[14:00] >> Each day someone is getting kidnapped

[14:02] and they can't find them.

[14:04] >> Where do they get that idea?

[14:06] >> You hear it almost every day on the

[14:08] news. This child is missing and so on

[14:11] and so on.

[14:12] >> July 21st

[14:13] >> and on billboards

[14:16] and on up to five billion milk cartons

[14:20] and hundreds of appeals

[14:22] >> and nearly 2 million are missing and who

[14:24] knows what's happened to them. The

[14:26] Maywood kids are not told these are

[14:28] estimates and that most missing kids are

[14:30] runaways and very few are abducted by

[14:33] strangers.

[14:35] There's a serious argument over how

[14:37] >> I believe the truth to be that there are

[14:41] less than 100 children per year abducted

[14:44] by strangers.

[14:46] >> The biggest numbers come from the

[14:47] National Center for Missing and

[14:48] Exploited Children, a federal agency

[14:51] whose large estimates are increasingly

[14:53] under challenge. Take the cent's

[14:55] estimate for all missing kids.

[14:57] >> The 1.3 to 1.8 million missing children

[15:00] comes out of federal studies that were

[15:02] done in years past.

[15:04] >> The FBI says it doesn't know of any

[15:06] database to support this figure. Since

[15:09] most of the kids are back home in a few

[15:11] days, the center gives a much smaller

[15:14] figure for kids missing longer.

[15:16] >> 20 to 50,000 kids are missing for a

[15:20] significant period of time. This is an

[15:22] estimate of kids still missing at the

[15:24] end of the calendar year, an estimate.

[15:27] And it's not a million or 2 million. Who

[15:30] are they? Most are teenagers, many

[15:32] running away from abuse at home to

[15:35] danger in the street. A smaller number

[15:37] is kidnapped by parents who don't have

[15:39] legal custody. And the smallest number

[15:42] is abductions by strangers. The FBI has

[15:46] 68 such cases. Children are missing.

[15:50] Some are abducted. Many are at risk. The

[15:53] irony is the national rush of genuine

[15:55] concern has helped find dozens of kids,

[15:59] but may have frightened millions

[16:01] unnecessarily.

[16:02] At Harborview Medical Center in Seattle,

[16:04] pediatrician Abraham Bergman says the

[16:07] chance of a child being taken by a

[16:09] stranger is the same as being struck by

[16:12] lightning.

[16:12] >> I don't think that strangers hurt kids

[16:15] very much. Child abuse occurs mostly in

[16:19] the child's own home.

[16:21] >> They don't really have to be so fearful

[16:25] that every stranger they see is going to

[16:27] whisk them off and torture them and kill

[16:29] them.

[16:30] >> See, and if anything happens to you, we

[16:32] know we got your fingerprints on file.

[16:35] >> But we don't want nothing bad to happen

[16:37] to you.

[16:38] >> Okay.

[16:38] >> John Hart, NBC News, New York.

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[18:25] For seven weeks now, veterans in Seattle

[18:27] have been keeping a vigil at the side of

[18:29] Gino Kasanova. He's a 34year-old Vietnam

[18:32] vet who's been on a fast, hoping to draw

[18:34] attention to the men still missing in

[18:36] action in Southeast Asia. As NBC's

[18:38] Charles Gomez reports tonight, he caught

[18:40] the attention of President Reagan just

[18:42] in time.

[18:45] Exhausted and near collapse, Vietnam

[18:47] veteran Gino Kasanova left his bamboo

[18:49] cage this morning and ended a 51-day

[18:52] fast that brought him to the attention

[18:53] of President Reagan. During a visit to

[18:56] New York yesterday, the president made a

[18:58] surprise call to Kasanova, who agreed to

[19:00] end his fast if the president would talk

[19:02] to him about men still missing an action

[19:04] in Southeast Asia. Is there a chance

[19:06] that you know myself and a and a a

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[19:11] with you in about 15 30 minutes at your

[19:13] convenience within the next 60 days

[19:14] anywhere?

[19:15] >> The answer was yes, but only if Kasanova

[19:18] broke his fast.

[19:19] >> You bet. I'm going to have something to

[19:21] eat tonight. We'll be seeing you within

[19:23] 60 days, sir.

[19:25] >> As friends celebrated, Kasanova drank a

[19:28] beer. Today, veterans who came to thank

[19:31] Kasanova were elated. He's answered many

[19:35] prayers of many thousands of people.

[19:38] >> His doctor said it would be some time

[19:40] before Kasanova could return to his

[19:42] regular diet.

[19:44] >> He will be on solid foods in 2 or 3

[19:46] days. Um, probably 2 weeks before he

[19:49] eats pizza.

[19:50] >> Kasanova began his fast on October 16th.

[19:53] He swore he would not eat food for 61

[19:56] days, one day for each Washington state

[19:58] man believed still missing in Southeast

[20:00] Asia. When Gino Kasanova began his fast

[20:03] from this bamboo cage just 52 days ago,

[20:05] he said his objective was simply to call

[20:07] some attention to the MIA issue.

[20:10] >> Now that his fast may lead to a meeting

[20:12] with the president, Kasanova says, "My

[20:14] only regret is that I didn't do it 10

[20:16] years ago." Charles Gomez, NBC News,

[20:19] Kent, Washington.

[20:21] >> In Korea 35 years ago this week, they

[20:24] were fighting one of the bloodiest

[20:25] battles of the war. Americans heavily

[20:28] outnumbered at the chosen reservoir. The

[20:30] survivors called the chosen few. As

[20:32] NBC's George Lewis reports tonight, the

[20:35] chosen few became Marine Corps legends

[20:36] and they are holding a reunion this week

[20:38] in San Diego.

[20:41] >> First international reunion of the

[20:43] chosen few will now come to work.

[20:47] >> There are 1420 of them here. Men who

[20:49] share the unique bond born in the fields

[20:51] of combat. They came here to renew that

[20:54] bond, to get reacquainted.

[20:56] >> Well, I never I never even dreamed. Wow.

[20:58] I thought you were dead.

[21:00] >> To swap old war stories. In other words,

[21:03] I was the guy that had the most time in

[21:06] the front lines.

[21:07] >> Yeah.

[21:08] >> To remember the way they were.

[21:11] >> This is what Baron used to do. See,

[21:17] >> they remember with a mixture of pride

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[21:26] Out of the 15,000 Allied troops who

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[21:31] were killed, 6,000 were wounded,

[21:34] thousands of others suffered frostbite

[21:36] in the below zero temperatures.

[21:38] >> I'm glad to see people

[21:42] off of that hill that I never thought I

[21:44] would get off of.

[21:45] >> The Allies hopelessly outnumbered 15,000

[21:48] of them against 120,000 Chinese troops.

[21:51] Outnumbered, outman,

[21:54] out gunned, but not out fire.

[21:57] >> As they fought their way out of Chosen,

[21:59] Marine General Oliver P. Smith uttered a

[22:02] memorable quote, later dramatized by

[22:04] Hollywood.

[22:06] >> Withdraw? You You mean retreat?

[22:09] >> Retreat? Hell, we're just attacking in

[22:11] another direction.

[22:15] The Marines, well aware that these men

[22:17] are part of the core's legend, gave them

[22:19] the VIP treatment at a demonstration of

[22:21] modern firepower.

[22:24] But for these men in their 50s and 60s,

[22:26] this reunion has not been all fun and

[22:28] games.

[22:30] For the vets, the most difficult moment,

[22:32] the most painful memories came today as

[22:35] they visited this place, the Fort Rose

[22:37] Cran's National Cemetery.

[22:45] the men who did not come home.

[22:49] As one of the vets put it, "If all men

[22:52] loved one another as much as we loved

[22:53] these guys, there wouldn't be any need

[22:56] for war." George Lewis, NBC News, San

[22:59] Diego.

[23:13] You're so nice to help me carry these.

[23:15] >> No problem.

[23:15] >> Where are your packages?

[23:16] >> I did my shopping here.

[23:18] >> Oh, and FTD Flores.

[23:19] >> I sent all the special people on my list

[23:21] to Candle Glow Bouquet.

[23:23] >> Oh, that's pretty.

[23:24] >> It's filled with greens, flowers, a

[23:27] glass chimney, and a candle.

[23:28] >> What a thoughtful gift. But how did you

[23:30] carry them all?

[23:31] >> I didn't. My FTD florist had them

[23:33] delivered all over the country. What a

[23:35] great idea. Here, hold this.

[23:38] >> The FTD candle glow bouquet. An ideal

[23:40] way to handle your holiday shopping.

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[24:11] >> I'm glad I found you.

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[24:55] Ah, the parts of America that are

[24:57] disappearing. drugstores with soda

[24:59] fountains, doctor's house calls, saddle

[25:01] shoes, big bands, hair tonic, and

[25:04] service. We get cash these days from

[25:06] machines. We order food over impersonal

[25:08] speakers. We receive letters from

[25:10] computers. Don't give up hope. NBC's Bob

[25:13] Dodson tonight with a survivor of the

[25:15] past.

[25:18] >> Welcome to Hotline. May I take your

[25:19] order, please?

[25:21] >> 9569.

[25:24] >> The more we see of the future.

[25:25] >> We're sorry. Your call cannot be

[25:27] completed as dialed.

[25:28] >> The lonelier it seems.

[25:32] Progress has come to mean no people.

[25:37] Personal service has gone the way of the

[25:40] buffalo.

[25:42] Oh, we're the men of work from Mexico.

[25:46] >> Remember when service was not just for

[25:49] the rich?

[25:50] >> Good morning.

[25:50] >> At Vince's red carpet gas station.

[25:52] >> Well, how are you today?

[25:53] >> It has never gone out of style. I wipe

[25:56] the pipe. I pump the gas. I rub the hub.

[25:58] I scrub the glass. I touch the clutch.

[26:00] I'm off the top. I poke the choke. I

[26:02] sell the pump. You've got to be darn

[26:03] quick not to get weighted on,

[26:06] >> sir. We'll get that for you.

[26:07] >> The last time I ran on gas, I had to

[26:09] walk 5 miles or close to that because

[26:12] nobody would give me a ride back to the

[26:14] to the car. I mean, these guys insisted

[26:16] on doing it.

[26:18] >> People do come from all over.

[26:20] >> I was on the other side of town and even

[26:21] though I was a little low on gas, I knew

[26:23] I'd make it here. They are willing to

[26:25] pay 20 cents more a gallon for this

[26:26] service because the red carpet has

[26:28] coddled its customers for 25 years.

[26:32] >> It'll probably be late this afternoon.

[26:34] It won't be dark. I don't drive after

[26:36] dark before 5:00.

[26:38] >> Since everyone wants his car the same

[26:40] day, it's traditional for mechanics to

[26:43] run back and forth to the part store

[26:45] next door.

[26:48] Have to wait for your car. This is a

[26:50] soundproof lounge. There are no

[26:53] grimecovered calendars of last year's

[26:55] Miss Wrench. No cigar fossils in the

[26:58] ashtrays.

[27:00] But for those who prefer warm food,

[27:03] there is an oven. You see, Vince once

[27:07] went to a self-service station.

[27:10] >> Like going into a bar, ordering a drink

[27:13] from a dispenser, and then going to the

[27:16] corner, and sitting by yourself at a

[27:18] table.

[27:19] >> Can I just put a piece of tape over it?

[27:22] There's no way to, you know, repair that

[27:23] with a with tape. It just won't hold.

[27:28] >> Putting a band-aid on an appendecttomy.

[27:30] You know, you can't do that.

[27:32] >> The red carpet gas station has been in

[27:34] the family for three generations.

[27:37] Vince's son Steve is now learning the

[27:39] business from the bottom up.

[27:43] >> Where the MEN'LL

[27:48] BE.

[27:50] Bob Dodson, NBC News.

[27:51] >> Have a nice day,

[27:52] >> Denver.

[27:55] >> That's nightly news for this Friday

[27:57] night. Connie Chung will be here

[27:58] tomorrow night. I'll be reporting from

[27:59] Los Angeles on Monday night. So, for

[28:01] now, from all of us, all of us humans at

[28:03] NBC News, have a good weekend.

[28:26] Up next on the scene at 6, Kentucky

[28:28] prosecutors say the wrong man may have

[28:30] been charged in the murder of a

[28:32] Clarksville liquor store clerk. A

[28:34] 21-year veteran of the Metro Police

[28:36] Department is charged with racketeering.

[28:38] We'll talk live with Vandy's new head

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