CBS Evening News - 1993-04-12

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[0:02] As we stand in unity and in solidarity

[0:05] for peace and for justice in this trial,

[0:08] >> waiting for the verdict, community

[0:10] leaders in Los Angeles campaign for

[0:12] restraint as the Nashville guard guards

[0:15] against the possible replay of one year

[0:17] ago. In Ohio, inmates are killed and

[0:20] guards held hostage in a bloody

[0:22] disturbance at a maximum security

[0:24] prison. and Eye on America. Tonight,

[0:28] victims of a backlash, fallout from the

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[0:35] American citizen who's about to be

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[0:39] >> This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:43] [music]

[0:47] >> Dan Rather reporting. Good evening. This

[0:49] was a day of watching and waiting in Los

[0:52] Angeles, California. Many, not all, but

[0:54] many citizens in the city are on edge,

[0:56] waiting for the verdict in the federal

[0:58] trial of four police officers accused of

[1:01] violating the civil rights of citizen

[1:03] Rodney King. Today, the jury deliberated

[1:05] for a third day. Deliberations totaling

[1:08] now more than 14 hours so far. The judge

[1:11] has turned down the juror's request for

[1:13] a written transcript of some eyewitness

[1:15] testimony. The judge told the jurors to

[1:17] rely on their memories and their

[1:19] handwritten notes. Meanwhile, National

[1:21] Guard units gathered at staging areas,

[1:23] ready, if necessary, to move out onto

[1:26] the streets. Last year, violent civil

[1:29] unrest, riots broke out after the police

[1:31] were acquitted on state charges. Los

[1:34] Angeles was unprepared then, but as Bill

[1:36] Lagatuda reports, it's a different story

[1:39] this time.

[1:41] >> How about a copy of the newspaper, sir?

[1:42] One local paper was asking the question

[1:45] today, the one on everyone's mind as the

[1:48] LA policemen, their lawyers, the

[1:50] government prosecutors, the electronic

[1:52] eyewitnesses from around the world, all

[1:55] stood by in a kind of jury deliberation

[1:57] limbo.

[1:58] >> However long it takes, we'll be here.

[1:59] We'll have to wait as you folks will

[2:00] too.

[2:01] >> Other people prepared for the worst.

[2:03] >> Go, go, go, guys.

[2:04] >> If something happens, we're ready this

[2:06] time, said the National Guard, which

[2:08] last time couldn't locate its

[2:10] ammunition. That's been fixed, said the

[2:12] general today.

[2:13] >> And I hope our presence will uh result

[2:15] in the city of Los Angeles

[2:18] staying calm.

[2:18] >> Calming to some, not so to others,

[2:21] including the new head of the NAACP.

[2:24] >> I am concerned that as as I see all the

[2:26] military apparatus being assembled and

[2:28] surrounding Los Angeles, uh that uh we

[2:31] don't have a situation where the law

[2:33] enforcement provokes an outbreak.

[2:36] >> The city sent 600 more police officers

[2:39] into the streets. A pre-alert alert

[2:42] again soothing to some this flexing of

[2:44] muscles unnerving to others.

[2:46] >> Everyone in our city remained calm and

[2:49] we maintain the peace here.

[2:50] >> LA was a city of split images today.

[2:53] >> We stand in unity.

[2:54] >> Latino, Korean, and blacks handholding

[2:57] in a show of solidarity while nervous

[2:59] store owners were boarding up just in

[3:02] case. And is this an overreaction? At a

[3:05] local gun store, these people were

[3:07] lining up to get ammo and guns before

[3:10] they're all gone.

[3:11] >> They pretty much bought out all 9

[3:13] millimeters we have left. All those guns

[3:16] in the hands of all those nervous people

[3:18] has made the city about as dangerous a

[3:20] place as it's ever been. Tonight,

[3:23] everyone hopes for a verdict soon so

[3:25] that whatever happens will be over with

[3:28] soon. Bill Agatudoto, CBS News, Los

[3:31] Angeles. A similar, but perhaps more

[3:34] complicated, more serious kind of

[3:36] tension tonight. Halfway around the

[3:38] world, South Africa has been plunged

[3:40] into another racial crisis over the

[3:42] murder of a militant black leader. The

[3:44] shooting threatens to derail the

[3:46] negotiating process now underway aimed

[3:48] at creating a multi-racial democracy in

[3:51] South Africa. Alan Vizy is on the scene

[3:53] in Johannesburg.

[3:56] >> The chanting is in praise of a man of

[3:58] violence turned peacemaker. 2,000 angry

[4:01] blacks marched today to the home of

[4:02] Chris Hani, the most revered

[4:04] revolutionary of the African National

[4:06] Congress who was murdered in his own

[4:08] driveway, apparently by a white man.

[4:11] Black revenge for the killing is South

[4:13] Africa's worst fear at the moment. As

[4:15] leader of the South African Communist

[4:17] Party, Chris Hani was immensely popular

[4:19] among young blacks who are frustrated by

[4:21] the slow pace of political change.

[4:23] >> Their hero, the soldier, their role

[4:26] model has been killed. I think the

[4:28] things going to be bad because of the

[4:31] death of his honey. It hurt a lot of

[4:33] people.

[4:34] >> One commemorative march turned violent,

[4:36] but by South African standards, it

[4:38] wasn't as bad as it might have been. The

[4:40] black townships are a wash in guns, and

[4:43] the police more used to handling

[4:45] stonethrowing teenagers, are stretched

[4:47] to the limit. Black and white political

[4:49] leaders have appealed for restraint,

[4:51] calling Han's assassination a misguided

[4:54] attempt by radicals to derail the

[4:56] stuttering peace process.

[4:57] >> It poses a challenge to all political

[5:01] leaders.

[5:03] In as much as there might have been a

[5:04] strategy behind this, the strategy was

[5:08] to upset and to put stumbling blocks in

[5:11] the way of negotiations. If there can be

[5:14] cooperation

[5:16] between the government and the ANC on

[5:19] issues of this nature, we are in a

[5:22] better position to curb

[5:25] uh whatever excesses might arise.

[5:28] >> The test now is to convince South

[5:30] Africans, blacks especially, that Chris

[5:32] Han's murder is best commemorated by

[5:34] striving for peace, not revenge. Alan

[5:37] Pizzy, CBS News, Johannesburg. In Ohio,

[5:41] the lives of eight guards hang in the

[5:43] balance tonight at a maximum security

[5:45] prison. They're hostages of rioting

[5:47] inmates who have already killed six

[5:50] fellow prisoners. Negotiations are

[5:52] underway trying to end the standoff

[5:54] before the death toll can rise at the

[5:56] prison in Lucasville. Jazelle Fernandez

[5:59] is there.

[6:02] On day two of the inmate siege, the body

[6:05] of a prisoner thrown out of the cell

[6:07] door was removed from southern Ohio's

[6:09] maximum security prison, notorious for

[6:11] housing the state's most dangerous

[6:13] criminals. Inside, eight guards are

[6:15] still being held hostage as negotiations

[6:18] move slowly.

[6:20] >> Our priority is to get our eight staff

[6:22] people out of there safe and soon. The

[6:26] riot broke out yesterday, Easter Sunday,

[6:29] when guards apparently attempted to

[6:30] break up an inmate fight and lost

[6:32] control. 450 prisoners armed only with

[6:35] batons stolen from the guards reportedly

[6:38] took cell block L adjacent to death row

[6:40] under siege. Five inmates were killed,

[6:42] 18 others injured, 10 of them guards.

[6:45] Prison officials have shut off water and

[6:47] electricity to cell block L and have

[6:49] reportedly had limited contact with the

[6:50] inmates held up inside. The inmates

[6:52] though reportedly have made 19 demands.

[6:55] Among them to speak directly with the

[6:56] FBI as well as a member of the news

[6:59] media today. This Cleveland newspaper

[7:01] reporter was allowed to talk briefly by

[7:03] phone to one inmate.

[7:05] >> He only said a few words, but he he

[7:07] sounded anxious. He sounded tired.

[7:09] >> Prison officials quickly cut off contact

[7:11] when the inmates failed to release a

[7:13] hostage as promised. Today, schools near

[7:16] the facility were shut down. One of them

[7:18] turned into an emergency communication

[7:19] center for families of hostages

[7:21] desperate for information. K. Cooper was

[7:24] lucky to hear from her husband, a guard

[7:26] last night. He told her he was not a

[7:28] hostage. He was okay.

[7:30] >> Told me that he was fine. He wouldn't be

[7:33] able to call again

[7:35] until everything was settled. He

[7:37] wouldn't.

[7:42] >> I wouldn't see him until everything was

[7:44] settled and he'd be able to come home.

[7:47] >> Until the hostages are released and the

[7:48] siege is over, there will be little

[7:50] peace of mind for so many of the worried

[7:51] residents here in Lucasville, Ohio.

[7:53] Prison officials say they do not know

[7:55] the exact condition of the eight guards

[7:56] held hostage, but they do believe

[7:58] tonight they are still alive. But this

[7:59] crisis remains far from over. Dan,

[8:03] >> thanks. Jazelle Fernandez live in Ohio.

[8:06] There was another outbreak of violence

[8:07] in neighboring Michigan at the maximum

[8:09] security wing of a prison in Jackson.

[8:12] Inmates there stabbed four [music]

[8:14] guards during the morning outdoor

[8:15] recreation period in what officials said

[8:18] was a planned attack. Conditions of the

[8:20] wounded Michigan guards have not been

[8:22] disclosed. Straight ahead on tonight's

[8:25] CBS Evening News, US fighter jets head

[8:27] for the first time to Bosnia. and eye on

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[9:45] >> US and NATO war plananes crisscrossed

[9:47] the skies over Bosnia today. The first

[9:49] day of an operation designed to curb

[9:51] Serbian aggression. But enforcement of

[9:54] the no-fly zone had no apparent effect

[9:57] on the ground where Serbian forces

[9:59] shelled Muslim towns and killed more

[10:01] than 50 people. Tom Fenton watched the

[10:04] launching of what's called Operation

[10:06] Deny Flight.

[10:09] Fully armed, the first US Navy F-18 took

[10:12] off from the USS Roosevelt and headed

[10:15] for the skies over Bosnia. The first

[10:17] time American and NATO forces have been

[10:20] committed to a potential combat role in

[10:23] former Yugoslavia. It was a new

[10:25] experience for most of the pilots.

[10:27] >> Very different, weird feeling actually.

[10:30] Now you know you're flying not not just

[10:32] for the fun of it, but over someone

[10:34] else's country.

[10:37] The carrier planes were joined by other

[10:39] American, French, and Dutch jets from

[10:41] bases in Italy. Close to 60 NATO

[10:44] warplanes will be involved with orders

[10:46] to keep all other aircraft out of

[10:47] Bosnian airspace, shooting down

[10:50] violators as a last resort. The UN has

[10:53] recorded some 500 violations of the

[10:56] no-fly zone since it was imposed last

[10:58] October. Most of them by light planes

[11:00] and helicopters. The most recent was

[11:02] Sunday night when a propeller plane was

[11:04] spotted over central Bosnia.

[11:07] >> The NATO commander, Admiral Mike Borda,

[11:09] pointed out the problems of enforcing

[11:11] the ban.

[11:12] >> The potential is that we will see

[11:14] helicopters,

[11:16] fixedwing, very fast fixedwing aircraft

[11:19] and very slow propeller aircraft. Those

[11:22] can present some very difficult and

[11:24] challenging problems for jet fighter

[11:26] pilots. We're a high-speed, high

[11:28] altitude fighter and uh if somebody

[11:30] chooses to fly low and slow, we can't

[11:33] can't necessarily get down there and mix

[11:35] it up with them, but we can still see

[11:36] them on radar.

[11:37] >> But aviation has never played a major

[11:39] role in this conflict. It's the ground

[11:41] war that has claimed so many victims.

[11:44] President Clinton's special envoy was in

[11:46] Sieo today, trying but failing to get

[11:48] all three waring parties to the

[11:50] negotiating table. The Muslims refused

[11:53] to show up because the Serbs broke the

[11:55] truce.

[11:57] Enforcing the no-fly zone may turn out

[11:59] to be largely a symbolic move, but at

[12:01] least it's a western show of force at a

[12:04] time when words have failed to stop the

[12:06] inexurable course of this dirty war.

[12:10] Tom Fenton, CBS News, Vicenza, Italy.

[12:14] The first day of NATO's first ever

[12:16] actual combat operation drew no hostile

[12:19] fire, but one French plane developed

[12:22] engine trouble and went down in the

[12:23] Adriatic Sea. The pilot was rescued.

[12:26] Stay here with us now for more CBS news,

[12:28] including a man with a gun. A community

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[14:08] >> They call it the city that never sleeps.

[14:10] They're right. So, what's going on all

[14:13] night long and all new 48 [music] hours

[14:16] Wednesday?

[14:19] >> For those who call at home, a 10b block

[14:21] area of the nation's capital has become

[14:23] a zone of terror. The police chief in

[14:25] the District of Columbia has authorized

[14:27] unlimited overtime trying to track down

[14:30] a driveby gunman who prowls by night and

[14:33] takes his victims at random. Rita Braver

[14:36] is covering the story.

[14:38] Fear haunts this community not far from

[14:41] the White House. Thank

[14:42] >> you. Keep looking and make those phone

[14:44] calls.

[14:45] >> The streets here have become a shooting

[14:47] gallery for a lone gunman who drives up

[14:50] to total strangers and fires. He has

[14:52] struck 10 times since February, missing

[14:55] a few targets, but wounding four people

[14:57] and killing two others.

[14:59] >> As soon as the sun go down, you don't

[15:00] find too many people out on the street.

[15:01] people that normally uh keep the guns on

[15:04] the shelf now they they they're placing

[15:07] them in their in their pocket books,

[15:08] their pockets. And you know

[15:11] >> well I'm staying in the house but when

[15:12] it gets dark I go in the house.

[15:14] >> The gunman always shoots at night. His

[15:16] targets have been black and white male

[15:18] and female. He killed 28-year-old Betsy

[15:21] Hudson by shooting her in the back of

[15:23] the head.

[15:24] >> Why? Why? Why? Why do we have kids with

[15:27] guns on the street? And it's not the

[15:28] first time this has happened in this

[15:30] neighborhood.

[15:31] and it's not the last.

[15:33] >> Police have released a composite sketch

[15:35] and increased security in the area, but

[15:37] to no avail.

[15:38] >> We do have a list of suspects. We won't

[15:40] go into detail as to how many suspects

[15:42] or who those suspects might be, but we

[15:44] have gotten some leads and we're working

[15:45] on those right now,

[15:47] >> but unless he's stopped, criminologist

[15:49] Ronald Weiner believes the killer is

[15:51] sure to strike again.

[15:52] >> Once they start that process, it begins

[15:54] to take on a life all of its own. And at

[15:56] that particular point in time, he

[15:58] becomes a predator.

[16:00] uh almost like a lion and uh literally

[16:03] there is a there is a real compulsion to

[16:05] kill.

[16:06] >> There is a $10,000 reward for anyone who

[16:09] can identify the killer. But in the end,

[16:12] it may just be luck or a mistake by the

[16:15] killer that cracks this case.

[16:17] >> The time of the shooting.

[16:20] >> But until then, the people of this

[16:22] neighborhood must learn to live with

[16:24] fear. Rita Braver, CBS News, Washington.

[16:28] With Americans rushing to beat

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[16:45] Coming up next, evidence that hundreds

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[16:50] reported by Vietnam after the war.

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[18:28] >> LA on alert. A community braces itself

[18:31] as the Rodney King jury deliberates and

[18:33] the verdict draws near. [music]

[18:34] Continuing coverage on CBS this morning

[18:36] with Harry Smith and Paul.

[18:40] >> The United States and Vietnam are

[18:42] talking about establishing normal

[18:44] diplomatic relations after years of

[18:46] post-war distrust. The chief remaining

[18:49] issue is a final accounting of prisoners

[18:51] of war. But now an old document has

[18:54] surfaced casting new doubt on Vietnam's

[18:56] credibility. Jim Stewart reports from

[18:58] the Pentagon.

[19:00] >> At the same time, North Vietnam was

[19:02] telling US negotiators in Paris it held

[19:05] only a few hundred American servicemen

[19:07] prisoner. A top secret document just

[19:09] obtained by US officials shows the

[19:11] number was far far higher. This report

[19:14] indicates that the total number of PS

[19:17] held by North Vietnam at the time was

[19:19] 1,25

[19:21] even though the number of American PS

[19:23] returned at homecoming in 1973 was 591.

[19:28] We are keeping the number of prisoners

[19:29] of war secret in accordance with the

[19:31] Pulit Bureau's instructions, said the

[19:33] document written by a senior North

[19:34] Vietnamese general to Hanoi's Pulit

[19:36] Bureau in 1972.

[19:38] An American researcher recently

[19:40] discovered a translation of the paper in

[19:41] Moscow's archives.

[19:43] >> The the first smoking gun that has been

[19:45] found on the Vietnam War.

[19:47] >> Although stung recently by fake

[19:49] photographs and bogus reports of

[19:51] Americans still held captive, Pentagon

[19:53] experts believe this document is

[19:55] authentic. Retired General John Bessie

[19:57] is in route to Vietnam on a White House

[19:58] mission to determine whether Vietnam has

[20:01] owned up to all it knows about Americans

[20:03] still listed as unaccounted for.

[20:05] questions that are raised in the

[20:06] document will be raised with Vietnamese

[20:10] Vietnamese by General Bessie as the

[20:12] first order of business. The document

[20:15] makes no mention of what happened to the

[20:16] 614 extra Americans it alludes to and

[20:19] for family members of the missing whose

[20:21] nightmare of waiting began when the last

[20:23] of the PS returned. The latest

[20:25] development has spired new anger.

[20:27] >> I mean, we always knew that Vietnam was

[20:30] not being truthful, not being

[20:32] forthcoming.

[20:34] This is so blatant.

[20:37] >> One problem investigators here have with

[20:39] the document is that it's a translation

[20:40] from Vietnamese into Russian and now

[20:42] into English. It could be that the

[20:44] Vietnamese have a logical explanation

[20:46] for the difference in numbers, but says

[20:48] one official here, they better come up

[20:49] with it fast. Jim Stewart, CBS News, the

[20:52] Pentagon.

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[23:06] First, there was a warning from the

[23:08] surgeon general. Then, a ban on

[23:09] television advertising. And now, a no

[23:12] smoking zone at the White House and talk

[23:14] of big new taxes. All of this brings big

[23:17] cheers from opponents of cigarette

[23:19] smoking. But you know what? Not everyone

[23:21] is cheering as we find out from Bob

[23:24] McNamera in tonight's Eye on America.

[23:27] >> The US Surgeon General's latest report

[23:29] on

[23:29] >> secondhand smokeausing on the job.

[23:31] >> The outside world is closing in poses a

[23:34] greater health risk

[23:35] >> on the tobacco farms of North Carolina

[23:41] and the families who have worked this

[23:43] land for generations feel angry and

[23:45] abandoned.

[23:46] >> I'm no different than any other farm in

[23:48] this country. I'm trying to make a

[23:49] living for me and my family.

[23:51] >> Steve Troxler has grown tobacco for 22

[23:53] years, but this season is different.

[23:56] >> There's a combination of things that are

[23:58] happening now all at one time that, you

[24:00] know, that's I guess makes it seem so

[24:01] much worse than it's been before.

[24:05] >> Both my sons drive the tractor in the

[24:07] field and it's good for them.

[24:08] >> Sharon Troxler has preserved their

[24:10] tobacco farm on tape, preparing for the

[24:13] time when her family's way of life has

[24:15] disappeared. To me, I'm a a hardworking

[24:18] taxpaying American citizen who's about

[24:21] to be burned at the stake. You know,

[24:24] that that's how we feel.

[24:27] >> It may be farming without a future,

[24:30] stalled by tax hikes, price drops,

[24:33] foreign competition, and the evidence

[24:35] that smoking kills.

[24:38] >> This is tobacco that we cured last year.

[24:41] American tobacco growers know they may

[24:44] be facing the beginning of the end.

[24:46] >> It's paid for everything I own, educated

[24:50] my children. We're proud to be tobacco

[24:52] farmers. Uh we we don't think we are

[24:57] secondass citizens. We think we're good

[24:59] citizens.

[25:00] >> Phil Lambbeath and his wife Dot were

[25:02] born into tobacco. I just hate for

[25:04] people to always be looking at it and

[25:06] saying, "Well, you ought to do something

[25:09] else."

[25:10] >> In this family, there is despair that

[25:12] the public sees tobacco farmers as

[25:14] villains.

[25:15] >> Well, it's it makes me feel bad to feel

[25:18] like that everybody thinks that what

[25:21] we're doing is bad.

[25:22] >> They've kicked us all the way from the

[25:24] bottom of our feet up to our shoulders.

[25:26] We'd like for it to just let us live. Be

[25:30] fair with us. That's all we ask. On some

[25:32] tobacco farms, after years of defending

[25:34] their way of life, they are tired of the

[25:37] fight and they're trying to use the

[25:39] things tobacco taught them to grow new

[25:41] lives.

[25:43] >> I'm not looking at being a tobacco

[25:44] grower the rest of my life.

[25:46] >> 11 years ago, Rick Apple added a nursery

[25:48] business to his tobacco farm.

[25:50] >> A lot of growers would like to get out

[25:52] of the business,

[25:52] >> but Apple says many farmers can't even

[25:54] afford to quit without help. If we're

[25:57] going to have a dollar pack tax, why not

[26:00] let a nickel of that for four or five

[26:01] years go into a program to help some

[26:04] growers get out of the business?

[26:07] >> They would get me out. I think I would

[26:10] take them up and do something else.

[26:12] >> Luke Lambeath is afraid he may not be

[26:14] able to continue his family's tobacco

[26:16] tradition.

[26:17] >> It's a day-to-day

[26:19] um conversation with tobacco farmers.

[26:23] The future. The future. Some are betting

[26:26] their farms and their futures on the

[26:28] business they grew up with.

[26:29] >> I'm going to ride the tobacco business

[26:31] down.

[26:31] >> You're going to write it down.

[26:32] >> If it goes down, then I then I'll I'll

[26:34] be [music] out of the farming business.

[26:39] >> Today in tobacco country, there are

[26:41] prayers that losing tobacco won't mean

[26:43] losing everything. [music]

[26:44] >> We can't just say your business is no

[26:47] longer wanted or needed. Go find jobs.

[26:50] Well, where are they going to go?

[26:53] in the small towns of rural North

[26:55] Carolina.

[26:56] >> You know, it hurts when you're attacked.

[26:59] >> Tobacco is not just farming. You know,

[27:01] we're talking about a way of life. It's

[27:02] family.

[27:03] >> It just it tears me up.

[27:07] >> Here, too. Tobacco is a matter of life

[27:10] and death

[27:13] in Brown Summit, North Carolina. Bob

[27:16] McNamera for Eye on America.

[27:20] >> And that's part of our world tonight.

[27:21] Tomorrow morning, join Harry Smith and

[27:23] Paul on CBS This Morning. They'll be

[27:25] talking about the Rodney King beating

[27:27] trial with the lawyer for one of the

[27:29] accused police officers. Dan Rather

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