CBS Evening News - 1999-07-24

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[0:02] Beware the air with ozone alerts across

[0:05] the country. The government issues new

[0:07] pollution standards just about

[0:09] everywhere. It's a summer rerun.

[0:11] Sweltering temperatures with little

[0:13] relief. At a private service, family and

[0:16] friends tonight remember crash victim

[0:18] Lauren Bet. And the first American

[0:21] network interview with the leader of

[0:23] China's mass spiritual movement.

[0:26] >> This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:30] with John Roberts.

[0:34] >> Good evening. I'm Cheryl Atkinson in for

[0:36] John Roberts. It sounds like a broken

[0:38] record. The summer of 99, already the

[0:41] hottest in many years, continued its

[0:43] torid ways today. Many cities broke heat

[0:46] records, but add air pollution to that

[0:48] and the result is unhealthy. We have two

[0:50] reports, beginning with Lee Cowan, who

[0:53] tells us the government chose this hot,

[0:54] steamy day to unveil a new air quality

[0:57] index.

[0:59] In Washington DC, the air was so thick

[1:02] it choked off buildings and swallowed

[1:04] planes. Along the east coast, the

[1:06] picture was the same. Hazy skies making

[1:08] the air unsightly and unsafe to breathe.

[1:11] It led to health warnings issued all

[1:13] across the country. And today in New

[1:15] York, the vice president announced there

[1:17] would be more to come. Parents will soon

[1:20] hear on the television or the radio

[1:22] specific warnings when the air is

[1:24] dangerous for those with asthma. And

[1:27] incidentally, it is today right here in

[1:31] New York City.

[1:32] >> The new air quality index unveiled today

[1:34] will provide specific new warnings for

[1:37] sensitive groups like those with asthma

[1:39] and other respiratory problems. It will

[1:41] require the same format to be used

[1:43] nationwide and suggest precautions to

[1:45] take for those who suffer the most. This

[1:48] is going to home in on the people who

[1:50] really face a deadly threat. If they

[1:53] need that information, they ought to

[1:55] have it. And now they will have it.

[1:57] The new warnings are aimed especially at

[1:59] children. Some 100,000 of them were

[2:02] rushed to emergency rooms last year

[2:03] suffering from respiratory problems.

[2:05] It's a number that's more than doubled

[2:07] just over the last 15 years. At

[2:09] Children's Hospital, doctors see some 20

[2:11] kids a day and welcome the new warnings.

[2:14] >> Heat pollution, a lot of exercise,

[2:17] getting dehydrated, I think has to have

[2:19] an effect on children, you know, that

[2:21] have asthma. Today's action is the first

[2:23] time in 23 years the index has been

[2:25] updated. For cities like Los Angeles

[2:27] that have hundreds of bad air days a

[2:29] year, the new system may help some

[2:31] breathe a little easier. Lee Cowen, CBS

[2:34] News, Washington.

[2:38] >> If misery loves company, these folks in

[2:40] Dallas have plenty today. A Texas style

[2:42] heatwave has Americans sweltering and

[2:45] finding creative ways to stay cool under

[2:47] heat advisories in 23 states. We have a

[2:51] real heat pump that is centered right in

[2:53] the heartland of the nation and going

[2:56] all around this big heat pump is what we

[2:59] call a ring of fire. The thunderstorms

[3:00] are going all around it. So they keep

[3:02] affecting the same places.

[3:05] >> In upstate New York, the blistering sun

[3:07] and high humidity are to blame for 1,000

[3:10] cases of heat related illness among the

[3:12] 200,000 people attending Woodstock. And

[3:16] heat's not the only problem.

[3:18] Every little weather system that tries

[3:20] to push down out of Canada seems to be

[3:23] touching off intense thunderstorms this

[3:25] year.

[3:26] >> This home video shows a tornado touching

[3:28] down in South Dakota. In Michigan, winds

[3:30] of nearly 70 mph, toppled trees, flipped

[3:34] boats, and ripped the siding off Tiger

[3:37] Stadium. Fierce summer storms have

[3:39] damaged crops in Ohio, and put parts of

[3:42] Detroit underwater. We've seen more and

[3:45] more um long periods of hot weather

[3:49] >> and summer in the city can be deadly. In

[3:52] New York, emergency teams are on the

[3:54] lookout for those most at risk.

[3:56] >> The populations that are most vulnerable

[3:59] during these extreme heat emergencies

[4:02] are people number one with pre-existing

[4:05] respiratory disease, the elderly, uh the

[4:08] very young.

[4:09] >> For now, the dog days continue over the

[4:12] next 10 days. The upper Midwest will see

[4:14] temperatures far above normal, as will

[4:16] the Midwest. But in August, they'll lose

[4:19] their bite, cooling down to below normal

[4:21] temps. The next few days will bring

[4:24] severe thunderstorms across the Great

[4:26] Lakes to the Northeast and the

[4:27] Mid-Atlantic. And while they will lower

[4:29] temperatures, the humidity remains and

[4:31] they'll do almost nothing to alleviate

[4:33] the drought that's plagued the

[4:35] Northeast. Maggie Cooper, CBS News, New

[4:38] York.

[4:39] Investigators at Otis Air Force Base on

[4:41] Cape Cod are analyzing wreckage of John

[4:44] Kennedy Jr.'s plane trucked in from

[4:46] Rhode Island after being unloaded by a

[4:48] Navy salvaged ship. Following

[4:50] yesterday's memorial for John and his

[4:52] wife Carolyn, a memorial tonight for the

[4:55] third person on the plane. Carolyn's

[4:56] sister, Lauren. CBS's Jeffrey Kaufman is

[4:59] in Greenwich, Connecticut.

[5:01] >> Cheryl Lauren was the was known as the

[5:04] Kennedy sister-in-law to the world, the

[5:06] other passenger on that fateful plane

[5:08] ride. But Lauren Bet had her own

[5:09] identity and her own accomplishments.

[5:12] >> That is what brought people here

[5:14] tonight. Her mother, Anne Marie, and

[5:16] stepfather, Dr. Richard Freeman, joined

[5:18] family, friends, and colleagues for a

[5:20] candlelight memorial by invitation only.

[5:23] >> This is a time for private grief. Uh the

[5:25] family has requested that we keep this

[5:27] dignified and simple and private uh

[5:30] because ultimately uh grief needs to be

[5:32] private. She wasn't a celebrity, but at

[5:35] 34, Lauren Basset was a rising star in

[5:38] her own world on Wall Street. She worked

[5:40] for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, then in

[5:43] New York, where she had just moved into

[5:44] this apartment near her famous little

[5:46] sister. And now she too is being

[5:48] remembered by strangers and friends.

[5:51] >> Yearbook. This is when Lauren was a

[5:52] junior and Carolyn and I were freshman.

[5:56] At high school in Greenwich,

[5:57] Connecticut, the three bet girls,

[5:59] Carolyn, Lauren, and her twin sister,

[6:01] Lisa, were impossible to miss.

[6:03] Beautiful, ambitious, and smart. Lori

[6:05] Chiapeta knew them all.

[6:07] >> I think twins sometimes have a little

[6:09] bit of notoriety cuz there's two. And I

[6:11] think that they were nice girls, and I

[6:12] think that people remember them like

[6:13] that.

[6:14] >> Like many who grow up in Greenwich, the

[6:16] betettes were children of prosperity and

[6:18] privilege. Today, this community has

[6:20] lost two of its daughters. Local

[6:22] florists have been busy all week

[6:23] delivering messages of sympathy from

[6:25] friends and strangers. This one for

[6:27] tonight's memorial.

[6:29] >> I believe it's from one of the Kennedes,

[6:31] a member of the Kennedy family, the for

[6:37] here because of the Kennedy present.

[6:39] Security is tight. About 600 people have

[6:42] been invited. Uh among those speaking

[6:44] will be Lisa Bet, the only surviving bet

[6:46] and Lauren's twin. The service is

[6:49] expected to begin shortly. Cheryl,

[6:52] >> still to come on tonight's CBS Evening

[6:55] News, payback time in Kosovo, a massacre

[6:58] in which Serbs are the victims. Also,

[7:01] Jesse Ventura not in attendance, but

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[8:48] >> The cycle of deadly violence in Kosovo

[8:51] turned again today against the few Serbs

[8:54] who stayed on. Tom Fenton tells us the

[8:56] massacre in a wheat field was the

[8:58] bloodiest incident since NATO troops

[9:00] arrived.

[9:02] >> Now it's the Serbs of Kosovo who are

[9:04] mourning their victims. These villagers

[9:06] lost 14 of their men last night.

[9:09] >> They are killing Serbs, he says. How

[9:11] long can it go on? British soldiers who

[9:14] sealed off the scene of the massacre

[9:16] said the Serbs were slaughtered in a

[9:18] horrible and gruesome manner while

[9:20] bringing in the harvest. Their bodies

[9:21] were strewn around the combine. The

[9:24] engines still running long after the

[9:26] bodies were removed. It's another

[9:28] setback for the NATO peace force known

[9:30] as K4.

[9:31] >> I have said before and it's a hard

[9:34] truth. It is reality that K4 cannot be

[9:37] everywhere all the time. It's also a

[9:40] hard truth that the tiny minority of

[9:42] Serbs who remain in Kosovo is paying the

[9:45] price for the ethnic cleansing campaign

[9:47] that Serb forces waged against the

[9:49] Albanians of Kosovo earlier this year.

[9:51] The ethnic Albanian fighters that NATO

[9:54] is trying to disarm were quick to deny

[9:56] responsibility for the massacre.

[9:59] >> We still don't know who did it, he says,

[10:01] but they had nothing to do with the KLA.

[10:04] All this is playing into the hands of

[10:06] Yugoslav President Slobodon

[10:08] Malassovvich, who today blamed NATO and

[10:10] the UN for failing to prevent the

[10:12] killings. NATO says it will do its best

[10:15] to track down the killers, but there's

[10:16] no judicial system or police force in

[10:19] Kosovo, and so far the UN has sent only

[10:22] a few dozen international police to help

[10:24] the hardpressed peacekeepers. Tom

[10:26] Fenton, CBS News, London.

[10:29] President Clinton heads tonight for

[10:30] Morocco to attend King Hassan's funeral

[10:33] tomorrow and meet with other world

[10:34] leaders. Hassan's son was cheered today

[10:37] after being proclaimed Morocco's new

[10:39] king, Muhammad the 6th. Hassan died

[10:42] yesterday of a heart attack after a

[10:43] reign of 38 years. There's more to come

[10:46] on tonight's CBS Evening News. The man

[10:49] behind a movement that's shaking up the

[10:51] government in Beijing. And shuttle

[10:53] commander Eileen Collins talks about her

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[13:14] The Reform Party faces a major

[13:16] crossroads tomorrow when delegates to a

[13:18] convention near Detroit pick a new

[13:20] chairman. The choice lies between a

[13:22] backer of Ross Perau and a candidate

[13:24] supported by Minnesota Governor Jesse

[13:27] Ventura. Jim Axelrod reports that even

[13:29] though Ventura isn't there, he's still a

[13:32] hit.

[13:35] >> It's a coronation of sorts at the third

[13:38] party convention outside Detroit. One

[13:40] problem, no king actually at the castle.

[13:43] >> This is Governor Jesse Ventur. I'm

[13:45] calling from my home in uh Maple Grove,

[13:48] Minnesota.

[13:49] >> The only Reform Party candidate ever

[13:51] elected to a statewide office couldn't

[13:53] make it to his own party's convention

[13:55] last night. Bad weather kept him

[13:57] grounded. A bad back apparently rules

[14:00] out an appearance the rest of the

[14:01] weekend.

[14:02] >> It wasn't really important whether he's

[14:04] here or not is what he speaks for us.

[14:07] But don't mistake popularity for

[14:09] solidarity. This third party has been

[14:12] making much like the other two and

[14:13] finding plenty to fight about. Party

[14:16] chairman party rules and the role of

[14:18] Ross Perau who's been a bit reserved

[14:20] welcoming Ventura to the party he

[14:23] founded. Well, what political party

[14:25] doesn't have disagreements and tensions?

[14:27] I mean, he's telling me that they're

[14:29] gathering together the Democratic party

[14:31] and singing kumbaya.

[14:32] >> I will take a moment now. I want to

[14:34] thank Ross Perau

[14:36] >> by phone. Ventura offered peace to Perau

[14:38] and cut off any talk of drafting the

[14:41] governor for president in 2000.

[14:43] >> And I will not seek a higher public

[14:46] office until I when and if I finish my

[14:49] term 3 and 1/2 years from now.

[14:52] >> Of course, the skeptics could not

[14:54] actually see Ventura's face as he said

[14:56] that the true believers are now left

[14:58] wondering if not Jesse in 2000, then

[15:02] who? Jim Axelrod, CBS News, Dearborn,

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[15:07] The pace aboard the space shuttle

[15:08] Columbia eased a bit today after the

[15:10] launch of its primary mission, the

[15:12] Chandra X-ray Observatory, which will

[15:14] look for black holes in space. Eileen

[15:16] Collins, the first woman to command a

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[15:36] scheduled return to Earth Tuesday.

[15:39] Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,

[15:41] the man the Chinese government likes

[15:43] least. And later, everybody has a story.

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[17:55] >> The Kennedy legacy with Leticia

[17:56] Baldridge and Arthur Slesinger. Plus, a

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[18:07] >> China tonight is continuing its

[18:08] aggressive crackdown on a spiritual

[18:10] movement called Fallen Gong and its

[18:12] stunning number of followers estimated

[18:14] at 70 to 100 million. Its leader, Lee

[18:18] Hong Shu, now lives here in the US,

[18:20] where Fallen Gong is also catching on.

[18:22] Today, he granted CBS News his first US

[18:25] television interview.

[18:27] Fallong Gong is a mysterious mixture of

[18:29] martial arts, meditation, and Buddhist

[18:32] teachings to achieve a healthy body and

[18:34] soul. The Chinese government doesn't see

[18:36] it as a religion, but a threat to

[18:38] Communist ways. The clash between Fallen

[18:41] Gong and the government began last April

[18:43] when 10,000 believers surrounded

[18:45] Communist Party headquarters demanding

[18:47] official status as a religion. This

[18:50] week, the government outlawed the group

[18:52] and followers say tens of thousands are

[18:54] detained without food or water.

[18:58] The leader, 48-year-old Lee Hongju,

[19:01] sometimes called Master Lee, lives in

[19:03] Queens, New York. On the surface, he's

[19:06] not at all the evil cultist China views

[19:08] him to be.

[19:12] >> I have never felt that I am a spiritual

[19:15] leader. I taught fallong for only three

[19:18] years and I have stopped teaching

[19:21] fallong for more than four years now.

[19:23] >> What separates fallong from a cult?

[19:28] Falong does not have temples, churches,

[19:31] baptism, all kinds of religious

[19:33] formalities. People will go out to do

[19:35] the exercises every morning for half an

[19:38] hour or 1 hour and go back to work.

[19:40] That's why I say it is not a cult.

[19:42] >> What are some of the basic tenants of

[19:44] Fallon Gong?

[19:47] What I'm teaching them to do is that if

[19:49] you really want to practice cultivation

[19:51] well, you have to emphasize the

[19:54] importance of virtue. You have to have a

[19:56] higher standard of morality. That's how

[19:59] you can reach a higher realms. For

[20:02] instance, I teach them specifically when

[20:04] you are hit, do not hit back. When you

[20:07] are sworn at, do not swear back. And

[20:10] when you do anything, you have to think

[20:12] about others first. The way you describe

[20:14] Fallon Gong, it seems so benign. Why do

[20:16] you think the Chinese government sees it

[20:18] as so threatening?

[20:23] >> Precisely because it is so good. There

[20:25] is a large number of people who are

[20:27] learning it. The number has has stood at

[20:30] over 100 million now. And maybe the

[20:34] biggest reason that the government see

[20:36] it as a threat is such. What is more,

[20:39] among these 100 million people, there

[20:42] are a considerable number of people who

[20:44] are communists. The theory I've been

[20:46] teaching is in conflict maybe with the

[20:49] communist ideologies. As far as I'm

[20:52] concerned, if you have a healthy body

[20:54] and you become a good people, become an

[20:56] individual of a higher morality, that

[20:59] will be good to society and that will be

[21:01] good to the government. I myself feel

[21:03] puzzled why the government feel so upset

[21:07] about it

[21:07] >> in light of the current crackdown in

[21:09] China. Do you fear for your safety or

[21:11] your family safety?

[21:14] >> I'm very very much concerned about it

[21:18] because my mother and my younger sister

[21:20] are still back in China and the children

[21:23] of my sister are also in China and they

[21:25] are being harassed by the police. No.

[21:28] >> Lee and his followers have formally

[21:30] asked both the United Nations and the

[21:32] State Department to try to mediate the

[21:34] dispute with the Chinese government. So

[21:35] far, no response to that request.

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[24:03] >> Finally tonight, it's a lesson that

[24:05] bears repeating. The burdens of life are

[24:08] always easier to handle when they are

[24:09] shared. Steve Hartman has an example

[24:12] from a crossroads where everybody has a

[24:14] story.

[24:23] Zanesville.

[24:26] >> My trip to Zanesville, Ohio started out

[24:28] like all the others.

[24:30] >> All right.

[24:30] >> I stopped at a pay phone, picked up the

[24:32] book, and started flipping.

[24:34] >> Who is it going to be this time? But

[24:36] fate was about to throw me a curveball.

[24:38] Reverend George Turner. See, I usually

[24:42] interview whoever answers the phone,

[24:44] which in this instance,

[24:46] >> this George

[24:46] >> would be him.

[24:47] >> Wonderful.

[24:48] >> But I quickly learned it's darn near

[24:50] impossible to even get a picture of this

[24:51] retired Baptist preacher without getting

[24:54] his wife in the shot, too.

[24:56] >> See, partners,

[24:57] >> he and Evelyn have been inseparable for

[24:59] 53 years.

[25:00] >> He helps me and I help him. So I decided

[25:04] to make this a story not about one

[25:06] person but one marriage and how

[25:09] incredibly close two people can be.

[25:12] >> We have just a old fashioned double bed.

[25:14] We don't we won't have it any other way.

[25:17] >> Why not?

[25:17] >> Uh because we got to be that close

[25:19] together.

[25:21] >> For George, it's a matter of practicing

[25:22] what you preach. He's given many a

[25:25] sermon on the sanctity of marriage and

[25:27] has condemned divorce as a plague on the

[25:30] land.

[25:32] By sheer coincidence, we happen to be in

[25:35] town during the one time every 17 years

[25:39] when locusts come out of the ground by

[25:41] the millions to mate and then disappear

[25:44] again into the dirt.

[25:45] >> Here's one.

[25:46] >> George, being a man of the cloth, I

[25:48] couldn't help but tease him about this.

[25:50] So, you're being overrun by locust.

[25:51] What'd you do wrong?

[25:54] >> My daughters.

[25:56] >> Don't say that, Daddy. Their two girls,

[25:59] Faithia and George Anne, have each been

[26:01] divorced

[26:03] >> twice.

[26:04] >> My day to prayer is, Lord, help them to

[26:07] find someone quickly.

[26:09] >> His daughters say all they've ever

[26:10] wanted is someone like dad. Someone to

[26:13] be a constant presence. And not just

[26:15] during the good times,

[26:16] >> there you go, mother.

[26:18] >> But the bad as well.

[26:19] >> Beautiful.

[26:20] >> This may be hard for me to say this. I

[26:23] hope she goes first

[26:26] because Steve,

[26:28] I don't know what she do without me.

[26:30] >> Now, at first that may sound

[26:32] presumptuous,

[26:34] but Evelyn does things like put the

[26:36] whipped cream in the freezer when she

[26:38] knows they need it today.

[26:39] >> Didn't mean to do that.

[26:40] >> And calls out for her husband after she

[26:43] sees him leave in the car.

[26:44] >> I'm saying, "George, where are you?" And

[26:47] then it dawns on me and you know, then I

[26:49] feel silly. This is feel terrible.

[26:53] About two years ago at uh college,

[26:55] >> Evelyn was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

[26:57] >> I thought I had it, but I don't.

[26:59] >> She tries to keep her memory sharp as

[27:01] possible.

[27:02] >> Don't tell me. Let me get it on my own.

[27:04] >> But knows the inevitable all too well.

[27:07] 10 years ago, her mother died of

[27:08] Alzheimer's.

[27:09] >> And because I love him and the children

[27:12] so much, I don't want them to see it.

[27:14] But if that's what it's to be, well, I

[27:16] know God will give them the strength to

[27:18] see it through because he gave the

[27:19] strength for me to see through my

[27:20] mother. And in the end, they say that

[27:23] faith is the secret of their success.

[27:26] They believe if their daughters, if

[27:28] anyone builds a marriage on that

[27:29] foundation, then not even death can

[27:33] break it apart.

[27:35] >> She's the one

[27:38] and only one.

[27:39] >> It's not a goodbye. It's a farewell.

[27:41] I'll see you on the other side.

[27:45] Now, now

[27:48] >> your next stop in place is Elmore

[27:51] County, Alabama.

[27:53] >> Until then, Steve Hartman, CBS News in

[27:57] Zanesville, Ohio.

[28:01] >> And that's the CBS Evening News.

[28:03] Tomorrow on Sunday morning and Face the

[28:05] Nation, the latest on the aftermath of

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