CBS Evening News - 1992-03-06

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[0:02] CBS News breaks the story. President

[0:05] Bush has the US military set to

[0:07] intercept Scud missiles headed for Iran.

[0:11] Hard times for American workers.

[0:13] Unemployment is up again. And Eye on

[0:17] America. Two big industries battling

[0:19] over access to your living room. This is

[0:23] the CBS Evening News.

[0:30] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting.

[0:32] President Bush has ordered the US Navy

[0:34] to prepare for a new confrontation at

[0:36] sea in the Middle East, possibly within

[0:38] the next two days. The stated goal is to

[0:42] block a secret shipment of Scud missiles

[0:44] from reaching the Persian Gulf. CBS News

[0:47] correspondent David Martin broke the

[0:48] story. He's at the Pentagon tonight with

[0:50] the details. David. Dan. Administration

[0:53] officials say the US intends to stop,

[0:55] board, and search a North Korean cargo

[0:58] vessel believed to be carrying Scud

[1:00] missiles to Iran. Now, North Korea can

[1:03] still avoid a confrontation if it orders

[1:05] the ship to change course, but based on

[1:07] its last known location. US officials

[1:10] say a boarding could come as early as

[1:12] this weekend if the ship maintains

[1:14] course and speed.

[1:17] US intelligence has been tracking the

[1:19] ship off and on since it left North

[1:20] Korea. It is now somewhere in the Indian

[1:23] Ocean. And although it has declared

[1:25] itself bound for Africa, US officials

[1:27] believe its real destination is the

[1:29] Iranian port of Bonder Abbas. Once in

[1:32] Iran, the missiles could be transferred

[1:33] to Syria, where they would be in range

[1:35] of Israel. The missiles believed to be

[1:37] on board are a more accurate version of

[1:39] the Scuds Iraq launch during the Gulf

[1:41] War. And the Bush administration is

[1:44] trying hard to stop the introduction of

[1:45] any more ballistic missiles into the

[1:47] Middle East. For the past year and a

[1:50] half, the US Navy has been boarding and

[1:52] searching suspicious cargo ships as part

[1:54] of the continuing United Nations embargo

[1:56] of Iraq. US officials say that under the

[1:59] terms of the UN embargo, they have the

[2:01] right to stop and search the North

[2:02] Korean ship, even though it is not bound

[2:05] for Iraq. If the ship is found to be

[2:07] carrying Scud missiles under false

[2:08] documentation, these officials contend

[2:11] the US would have the right to divert it

[2:12] to another port. However, the same

[2:15] officials concede the US would have no

[2:17] legal right to divert the ship if it

[2:20] produced a bonafide manifest and

[2:21] correctly identified its cargo as Scud

[2:24] missiles bound for Iran. Dan

[2:27] >> David, set aside the fact that this is

[2:28] happening in an election year. Why is

[2:31] President Bush doing this at this time?

[2:33] >> Well, one, I think it's a genuine desire

[2:36] to show that it's serious about the

[2:38] spread of stopping the spread of these

[2:39] missiles. Two, it satisfies Israel,

[2:42] which is very upset about the prospect

[2:44] of more of these missiles coming into

[2:46] the Middle East. And three, it

[2:47] establishes a track record with North

[2:49] Korea for the day when the crunch comes

[2:52] over North Korea's attempts to build a

[2:54] nuclear weapon. David Martin, thanks.

[2:57] There has been increasing talk in recent

[2:59] days of an improving economy. There was

[3:02] not much of it today. The Labor

[3:03] Department says unemployment has jumped

[3:05] another 2/10en of a point to its highest

[3:09] level since the summer of 85. 73 out of

[3:13] every 1,000 American workers are out of

[3:15] a job. Our coverage begins with CBS News

[3:18] money correspondent Ray Brady.

[3:21] >> Cutbacks announced this week alone.

[3:24] Macy's, 57 of its stores will be closed.

[3:27] Digital equipment, 7,000 employees will

[3:30] be offered early retirement. AT&T. 6,000

[3:34] operators could be let go over the next

[3:37] two years.

[3:38] >> All trends helping boost today's

[3:40] unemployment rate to 7.3%,

[3:43] the highest in 6 and 12 years.

[3:46] >> I think the job outlook's going to be a

[3:47] tough one this year and probably next.

[3:49] Uh, corporate America is not in a mood

[3:51] to take on a lot of expensive new

[3:53] workers.

[3:54] >> Jobs are being lost right across the

[3:56] country. Today's figures show higher

[3:59] unemployment rates in states like New

[4:01] York, New Jersey, Illinois, and

[4:03] California. They are increases already

[4:06] having political repercussions.

[4:08] >> Today's figures are very grim. We now

[4:11] are experiencing the highest levels of

[4:13] unemployment in a recession which now

[4:16] has gone on

[4:18] longer than any in the uh post-war

[4:21] period. A separate survey shows an

[4:24] increase of 164,000 non-farm jobs, but

[4:28] say many economists don't get your hopes

[4:30] up. That's strictly a statistical quirk.

[4:33] >> I think a lot of this was probably just

[4:35] a seasonal aberration because the

[4:38] government does make seasonal

[4:39] adjustments in the data every single

[4:41] month.

[4:42] >> And that brings up the biggest question

[4:44] of all.

[4:45] >> 7.3% unemployment. Are we still in the

[4:48] recession? Are we coming out of it? What

[4:50] are we doing? Well, I think today's

[4:52] numbers, particularly the increase in

[4:53] the unemployment rate to 7.3% suggest

[4:56] that we're still in a recession and that

[4:57] it might linger for several more months.

[5:00] There's one bright spot in these

[5:01] figures. They show that workers are

[5:03] putting in longer hours on the job and

[5:05] that can be a sign that employers may be

[5:08] hiring more workers soon. Ray Brady, CBS

[5:12] News, New York.

[5:15] >> This is Ron Allen in Los Angeles. Each

[5:17] sunrise here casts a gloomy shadow at

[5:20] the bottom of the economy where day

[5:22] laborers compete.

[5:23] >> It should be very hard to find a job

[5:25] right now.

[5:26] >> Right now I only got like $2, so I need

[5:28] to make some money.

[5:29] >> It used to be mainly for Latin American

[5:31] immigrants, many of them illegal and

[5:33] unskilled, standing on corners hoping to

[5:36] get hired for a few dollars an hour a

[5:38] couple of days a week. But the latest

[5:40] unemployment rate in Los Angeles County

[5:42] is up to almost 10%.

[5:44] >> I've done a little painting. These days,

[5:46] more and more people like Robert Clark

[5:48] are showing up at city-run hiring sites

[5:50] set up to manage the problem. The fact

[5:53] that he's white and a skilled worker

[5:55] makes him stand out in the crowd.

[5:57] >> I've worked at a graveyard digging

[5:58] graves. Uh with our job, we were

[6:00] unloading boxes from a container. Um

[6:04] down here, basically, you get whatever

[6:05] is available. Clark couldn't hang on to

[6:07] his family business, so now he hangs on

[6:09] to a number, waits for an employer to

[6:12] show up, and hopes he hits the day labor

[6:14] lottery.

[6:19] >> Maybe one out of every four or five

[6:21] days, you find something.

[6:22] >> And today's rising unemployment rate

[6:24] means his chances are not likely to get

[6:26] better anytime soon. The fact that even

[6:28] skilled workers are being forced to

[6:30] resort to this type of work is another

[6:32] economic indicator pointed down. In

[6:35] better days, Bruce Davis used to hire

[6:37] day laborers, then became one himself.

[6:40] >> When I pulled up to the day labor site,

[6:43] uh, my truck was flooded with a swarm of

[6:45] guys thinking I was I was hiring, and

[6:46] it's like, hey, I'm looking for a job,

[6:48] too. Uh,

[6:49] >> even though Davis has since found

[6:50] full-time work. He concedes in this

[6:52] economy, no job is very secure.

[6:55] >> I'm not too proud to dig a hole or, you

[6:57] know, work for the $5 an hour if I have

[7:00] to. Day labor used to be a rung on a job

[7:02] ladder headed up. But the recession has

[7:04] turned it into a stop on the way down.

[7:07] For most of these men, the day will end

[7:08] as it began. No work and no pay. Ron

[7:13] Allen, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[7:16] >> Still ahead on the Friday CBS Evening

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[8:40] >> This is Michelangelo's birthday. Today,

[8:42] a computer virus named after the

[8:44] Renaissance sculpture was supposed to

[8:46] carve up millions of computer programs.

[8:49] Instead, as John Blackstone reports,

[8:50] Michelangelo's master work was pretty

[8:53] much a bust.

[8:57] The first reports this morning fed fears

[8:59] that today could be disastrous for

[9:01] millions who depend on their computers.

[9:03] Six in New Zealand, 48 in Australia.

[9:06] >> In California, computer security expert

[9:08] John McAfee gathered information from

[9:10] around the world on destruction blamed

[9:12] on the Michelangelo computer virus.

[9:15] >> In Budapest, uh we have a hospital that

[9:18] lost 25 systems uh including all patient

[9:21] records.

[9:23] In South Africa, Michelangelo hit hard

[9:26] there. The electronic virus spread

[9:28] rampantly and somewhat ironically in the

[9:31] computers of hundreds of pharmacists

[9:33] >> in the region of 1,350 PCs have in fact

[9:37] been gone through the damage process of

[9:39] Michelangelo.

[9:40] >> But in the United States, Michelangelo

[9:43] seems to have been the virus that cried

[9:45] wolf. There were only a few reports of

[9:47] computer memories being destroyed when

[9:49] machines were switched on this morning.

[9:51] When you turned it on, what happened?

[9:53] >> Exactly what you see. Nothing.

[9:56] >> At the New Jersey Institute of

[9:57] Technology, hundreds of computers were

[9:59] infected with the virus earlier this

[10:01] week. But by today, when Michelangelo

[10:03] was triggered, all except one had been

[10:05] cured.

[10:06] >> But one out of 5,000 isn't really bad.

[10:08] >> A week ago, this virus was was

[10:10] everywhere. Um, for us to now be having

[10:13] just sporadic reports means that the

[10:15] media campaign was was a great success.

[10:18] Thanks to Michelangelo, the past week

[10:20] has been the busiest one ever for

[10:21] companies that sell programs that hunt

[10:23] out and destroy computer viruses.

[10:25] >> Yeah, but you need to come down right

[10:27] away because we're running out.

[10:28] >> Bye-bye, Michelangelo.

[10:30] >> And the scare has given a boost to those

[10:32] developing tighter security systems for

[10:33] all computers.

[10:35] >> The technology is there to end the age

[10:37] of the virus. It's kind of like a temper

[10:40] detection seal that you find on on some

[10:42] uh products in stores. Computer security

[10:45] experts say the Michelangelo virus has

[10:47] provided the most potent warning yet

[10:48] that these are dangerous times in the

[10:50] information age. That all computer users

[10:53] have to start practicing safe software.

[10:56] John Blackstone, CBS News, San

[10:58] Francisco. The US government is

[11:00] negotiating its first contract with

[11:02] former Soviet scientists. The Department

[11:04] of Energy is hiring more than 100

[11:06] scientists at an institute in Moscow.

[11:08] They will continue their research into

[11:10] nuclear fusion and supply results to the

[11:13] United States. Fusion is potentially a

[11:15] cheap, clean, and abundant source of

[11:18] energy. Soviet nuclear weapons are now

[11:21] officially under the control of the new

[11:23] Commonwealth of Independent States.

[11:24] Conventional forces are not. The Red

[11:27] Army, a few months ago, the biggest army

[11:29] in the world, is breaking into pieces.

[11:32] Correspondent Anthony Mason reports from

[11:34] Ukraine.

[11:36] Colonel Adam Chikal is a model of Soviet

[11:39] military training. Graduate of a Moscow

[11:41] military academy, a hero in Afghanistan,

[11:44] but the tank training base he was

[11:46] assigned to command is now in

[11:48] independent Ukraine. And my commander,

[11:51] he says, is now the Ukrainian Minister

[11:53] of Defense.

[11:55] The armor may be Sovietade, but these

[11:57] tanks do not belong to the Commonwealth.

[12:00] This is the new Ukrainian army. While

[12:03] the commander of the Commonwealth's

[12:05] armed forces is trying to preserve a

[12:07] unified military, here in Ukraine, the

[12:10] army has already decided it's not taking

[12:13] orders from Moscow anymore.

[12:16] At the Defense Ministry in Kiev, General

[12:18] Constantine Morose insists all of the

[12:21] more than half million soldiers based in

[12:23] Ukraine are now under his command.

[12:27] >> And Ukraine, he says, will not be part

[12:29] of any military alliance. Soldiers here,

[12:32] whatever their nationality, are now

[12:34] asked to take an oath. I swear to defend

[12:37] the freedom and independence of Ukraine

[12:39] without hesitation. But some have

[12:41] hesitated. 21-year-old Vitali Levvenets

[12:44] refused.

[12:45] >> "I'm Russian," he says, and all the

[12:47] Russians in this platoon decided not to

[12:49] take the oath. Vitali will soon return

[12:51] to Russia. "Boris Yelen has grudgingly

[12:54] let the Ukrainians go their own way, but

[12:57] he's still fighting Ukraine's claim to

[12:58] the Black Sea Fleet. The admiral in

[13:01] charge of the Ukrainian Coast Guard is

[13:02] adamant. Ukraine has a full right to

[13:05] have its own navy.

[13:07] In a Kiev workshop, designers are

[13:09] already fashioning the military's

[13:11] future. The new National Guard uniform

[13:13] will be Ukrainian blue and yellow, says

[13:16] the supervisor. All Soviet influences

[13:18] will be gone.

[13:21] >> Ukraine is marching its military out of

[13:23] the Commonwealth, and many predict the

[13:25] country itself may soon follow. Anthony

[13:28] Mason, CBS News, Verdichev, Ukraine.

[13:31] >> Stay with us now for more CBS news,

[13:33] including a story of a crime and

[13:36] punishment, rape and castration.

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[15:14] What did Ray Copeland and his wife Fay

[15:16] do on their farm that makes them the

[15:18] oldest man and woman on death row? Watch

[15:21] 60 Minutes. Everybody else does.

[15:26] Few crimes cause more outrage than the

[15:29] sexual abuse of a child. What is a

[15:31] fitting punishment for the crime? As

[15:33] James Huri reports, the Houston solution

[15:36] agreed to in a courtroom today is adding

[15:39] fuel to that controversy.

[15:41] Steven Allen Butler today volunteered to

[15:43] be castrated rather than face up to life

[15:46] in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl.

[15:48] The judge says he'll grant Butler 10

[15:50] years deferred adjudication, essentially

[15:52] probation, if he underos the procedure.

[15:56] >> We do sex drive is exactly what I think

[15:59] it will do and possibly any aggressive

[16:01] tendencies.

[16:02] >> Butler is already on probation for

[16:04] indecency with a child. Judge Mike

[16:06] McPaden, who says conventional sentences

[16:08] haven't worked, has been an outspoken

[16:11] advocate of castration.

[16:12] >> They say this is the first time in 20

[16:14] years they've seen him scared of

[16:15] anything down here. So, we know it's a

[16:17] deterrent.

[16:17] >> There are some studies out of Northern

[16:20] Europe which would indicate that it is

[16:22] effective as a punishment as far as

[16:24] decreasing people's sexual desires. Even

[16:27] though it's voluntary in this case, many

[16:29] experts consider castration cruel and

[16:31] ineffective against a crime often

[16:33] motivated by power as well as sexual

[16:35] desire.

[16:36] >> Castration is not going to give somebody

[16:38] a conscience, is not going to give

[16:40] somebody empathy, and may in the long

[16:43] run make make further assault even more

[16:45] possible.

[16:46] >> Before his operation, Butler will get

[16:48] counseling to make sure he realizes

[16:50] castration, unlike a criminal

[16:52] conviction, cannot be reversed. James

[16:55] Attori, CBS News, Dallas.

[16:58] >> One of the giants of the broadcasting

[16:59] industry and a member of our CBS family

[17:01] has died. Robert Highland, senior vice

[17:04] president of CBS radio and general

[17:06] manager of KOX St. Louis. Through four

[17:09] decades, Highland was an innovator in

[17:11] broadcasting with a heavy emphasis on

[17:13] news, public service, and commitment to

[17:16] the community. Robert Highland was 71.

[17:19] Coming up next, Eye on America tonight.

[17:22] Your future is on the line. But will it

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[19:05] >> Saturday, it's conference crunch time

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[19:18] >> Now we're going to take you to Tomorrow.

[19:21] Yes, tomorrow is already here. Well, not

[19:24] right here. Actually, it's in Cerritos,

[19:27] California. Correspondent Wyatt Andrews

[19:29] went there for tonight's Eye on America.

[19:36] Randy and Betty Hyatt have the living

[19:38] room of the future. A future where you

[19:40] may never again go to the video store or

[19:43] wait for a cable movie to start. You'll

[19:45] just dial a movie up, start and stop it

[19:47] whenever you're ready. All without a

[19:50] VCR.

[19:50] >> Okay,

[19:51] >> let's play this one.

[19:52] >> When it's bill paying time, that too

[19:54] you'll do on TV.

[19:56] >> Sure, let's pay the Edison bill.

[19:57] >> The Hyatts are part of an experiment in

[19:59] Cerritos, California, where the phone

[20:02] company has special FCC permission to

[20:04] dabble in television. GTE has rewired

[20:07] parts of Cerritos with fiber optic, that

[20:10] tiny strand of glass capable of

[20:12] replacing every other wire that comes

[20:14] into the home and makes this video

[20:16] future possible.

[20:17] >> It'll tell you if you're right.

[20:18] >> But the Hyatt living room is in the

[20:20] center of an economic war. The nation's

[20:23] phone companies in a fight with the

[20:24] cable industry want the right to sell

[20:27] you fiber optic cable TV. What that

[20:30] means for you is that the cable

[20:32] companies will be compelled to respond

[20:35] to competition. Their prices and hours

[20:38] will be kept low. Service quality will

[20:40] go up. Americans will have a choice.

[20:44] >> Yellow pages for San Diego.

[20:46] >> The telephone companies or Telos are

[20:48] selling a fiber optic vision right out

[20:51] of Star Trek. A day when your telephone,

[20:54] television, and personal computer become

[20:56] the same toy. You talk to it, it works.

[20:59] >> Baby furniture.

[21:01] >> But cable TV is fighting phone company

[21:03] competition with a frightening vision.

[21:06] Cable warns that if the phone company is

[21:08] your only source of communication and

[21:10] your key source of information, welcome

[21:13] big brother.

[21:14] >> They want to be the ones to pick what

[21:15] you see and when you see it and how much

[21:17] you'll pay for it. In the meantime, they

[21:19] might crush cable. They might crush the

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[21:22] them back. Also, how much can you trust

[21:25] the phone company not to stick you, the

[21:27] telephone user, with the cost for video

[21:30] services?

[21:31] >> My grandma would be stuck potentially

[21:33] with $10 more a month on the telephone

[21:35] bill in order for the Telos to pursue

[21:38] their their fiber optic dream.

[21:40] >> Cable TV may have some powerful

[21:42] arguments against telephone competition,

[21:44] but cable's main problem is look who's

[21:47] talking. In most areas of the country,

[21:49] cable 2 is a monopoly. And in many

[21:51] areas, it's cable that has the

[21:53] reputation for price gouging and poor

[21:55] service.

[21:56] >> We are very dissatisfied with the cable

[21:59] company.

[22:00] >> Cindy Martin watches hours of cable TV,

[22:03] but there with her old wired remote, she

[22:05] just doesn't trust cable to bring her

[22:07] the future.

[22:08] >> We should, I guess, hand the box back to

[22:11] them. But you either like what they what

[22:14] they provide and and the way they do

[22:16] things or you do without cable. The best

[22:19] way to address those problems is to tell

[22:22] this monopoly, "Look, we're going to

[22:23] bring in some competition for you."

[22:25] >> The phone company.

[22:26] >> Absolutely.

[22:26] >> Congress, meanwhile, is considering

[22:28] competition, allowing the phone

[22:30] companies into TV if they open the fiber

[22:33] optic network to competitors and promise

[22:35] not to charge phone customers for

[22:37] building. The advantages of this new

[22:40] competition are just fabulous for the

[22:45] consumer who wants his or her child to

[22:48] be able to plug into the Library of

[22:50] Congress instead of playing Nintendo.

[22:52] >> Let's say hi Mr. Vette's class.

[22:55] >> Betty Hyatt as a second grade teacher

[22:57] uses the same technology in class that

[22:59] she has at home, making video phone

[23:01] calls to other classes. The gift here,

[23:04] she says, is access. I spent a year in

[23:06] Klondac region of

[23:08] >> connecting classrooms or the living room

[23:10] to any library, video, book or movie at

[23:13] will and now two public industries with

[23:16] the most questionable records for

[23:18] customer service. The phone company and

[23:20] cable TV are in a trillion dollar fight

[23:22] for the loyalty of the customers of the

[23:25] future

[23:27] >> in Cerritos, California. Wyatt Andrews

[23:30] for Eye on America.

[23:33] Our

[23:41] dentist recommended baking soda,

[23:43] >> but we wanted Tarter Control.

[23:44] >> Arman Hhammer Dental Care gives us both.

[23:47] >> Now, Arman Hammer Dental Care just

[23:48] introduced the only Tarter Control

[23:50] toothpaste with baking soda.

[23:52] >> And brushing with baking soda,

[23:54] >> or baking soda, toothpaste,

[23:55] >> is recommended by two out of three

[23:57] dentists to help provide healthy teeth

[23:59] and gums. Only Arman Hammer Dental Care

[24:01] gives us the tartar control we want

[24:03] >> and the baking soda our dentist

[24:05] recommends.

[24:05] >> New Arman Hammer dental care tarter

[24:07] control

[24:08] >> from the baking soda experts.

[24:11] >> Did I get that right?

[24:12] >> Perfect.

[24:12] >> Back in five, Stephanie.

[24:13] >> When you're trying to eat right, days

[24:15] like this are a disaster. This it

[24:18] >> Stephanie Powers talks about Kellogg's

[24:20] Neutrorain.

[24:21] >> The only time I really control what I

[24:23] eat is at breakfast. And the whole grain

[24:24] in Kellogg's Neutrorain gives me a

[24:26] natural start. No sugar added, no

[24:29] preservatives, nothing fake. No matter

[24:32] what I eat later at breakfast, I call

[24:35] the shots.

[24:36] >> Naturally good. Neutrorain, the natural

[24:39] place to start.

[24:42] Fingerman on location for the one and

[24:44] only Ziplock.

[24:46] Freezer burn. That's a chilling thought.

[24:48] To protect your food, there is nothing

[24:50] like Ziplock brand freezer bags. Ziplock

[24:53] has a gripper zipper. The only bag with

[24:55] tough, tiny teeth. You can feel it

[24:57] gripping, so you know freshness is

[24:58] locked in, freezer burns locked out.

[25:01] That's a good feeling you only get from

[25:03] Zip Lock. I got to get some gloves.

[25:07] For fresh food, there's only one Ziplo.

[25:11] >> Some days my minor arthritis acts up and

[25:14] I really feel the pain. I used to take

[25:17] aspirin. Now I've switched to Advil.

[25:19] Advil relieves the pain in my stiff

[25:21] joints. In fact, one Advil is as

[25:24] effective as two regular aspirin. And

[25:26] Advil is gentler to my stomach. Maybe

[25:29] that's why doctors recommend Advil for

[25:31] minor arthritis pain more than any other

[25:33] brand. For my pain, I simply prefer

[25:37] Advil. Advil, advanced medicine for

[25:40] pain.

[25:43] Finally, tonight, a look at a local

[25:45] politician who wants to make it on the

[25:47] national scene. Not as president, but as

[25:49] a US senator from California. Here's a

[25:52] clue. He's a Republican and he doesn't

[25:54] wear bell bottoms anymore.

[25:57] Richard Roth reports.

[26:01] >> I got you, babe.

[26:04] >> His claim to fame was a string of hit

[26:06] songs 20 years ago and a talent on

[26:08] national TV for getting picked on by his

[26:11] wife.

[26:12] >> Sunny Bono was fantastic in Vegas, super

[26:15] in New York, and and and dynamic in Los

[26:18] Angeles, and and boring at home.

[26:22] Now he's at it again. Sunonny Bono's

[26:24] playing the straight man.

[26:26] >> I intend to replace Alan Cranston as

[26:30] your next senator from California.

[26:32] >> Seriously,

[26:33] >> it's a public hearing night.

[26:34] >> After four years as mayor of Palm

[26:36] Springs, Sunonny Bono has a new

[26:38] ambition. Running as a conservative for

[26:40] the Republican Senate nomination, he

[26:42] hopes to turn his enormous name

[26:44] recognition into respect.

[26:46] >> You're the man, Sunny. Thank you.

[26:48] >> So, he's trying to build credibility.

[26:50] He's attracted a high-powered campaign

[26:52] organization from Washington and needs

[26:55] it. According to the polls, while he's

[26:57] the best known candidate, he's the least

[26:59] favored.

[27:00] >> What makes Sunny think that someone from

[27:03] California entertainment industry can

[27:05] succeed in national politics?

[27:07] >> He thinks it because it's been done

[27:09] before. And even before Ronald Reagan,

[27:11] there was song and dance man George

[27:13] Murphy in the Senate. California has a

[27:16] tradition of performer politicians. You

[27:18] look at show business as fun and games.

[27:21] We look on it as a very important

[27:24] industry. So axiomatically an

[27:27] entertainer is not a clown out here,

[27:30] >> but not necessarily a slick politician

[27:32] either. Bono says he's running as the

[27:35] common man of California, fed up with

[27:37] politics as usual. We're all sitting

[27:39] around going,

[27:43] you know, and meanwhile statistically,

[27:45] we all know we're bottom, we're at the

[27:47] bottom of the charts on statistics. He

[27:51] >> part of the new image, a new family with

[27:53] his fourth wife, Mary. I'm not that guy

[27:55] anymore from the old TV show, says

[27:57] Sunny.

[27:59] >> And what about Sher? Well, she's not

[28:01] commenting on Sunny's campaign, but at

[28:03] least she's not picking on him anymore.

[28:06] Richard Roth, CBS News, Palm Springs.

[28:13] >> That's part of our world tonight.

[28:17] >> As Crosby, Stills, and Nash reunite for

[28:19] an acoustic concert taped during their

[28:21] 1991 tour. And at 11:00, their sometime

[28:25] partner Neil Young follows in an Austin

[28:27] City Limits special. I wanna live.

[28:32] I wanna

[28:33] >> Crosby Steels Nash and Young just for

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