CBS Evening News - 1984-04-11
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[0:00] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening
[0:02] News. Dan Rather reporting. Congress and
[0:05] President Reagan today continued their
[0:06] overt battle about Mr. Reagan's covert
[0:09] war against Nicaragua. A war that
[0:11] includes reported CIA directed mining of
[0:14] Nicaraguan harbors. House Speaker O'Neal
[0:16] called this mining terrorism at its
[0:18] worst. The House Foreign Affairs
[0:20] Committee voted overwhelmingly this
[0:22] afternoon to support a non-binding
[0:24] resolution similar to one passed by the
[0:27] Senate last night, deploring the harbor
[0:29] mining.
[0:30] >> Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam
[0:32] answered angry committee questions about
[0:34] the action. He refused to acknowledge
[0:36] it, but he defended its legality. I
[0:38] thought you were referring one of the
[0:40] major wellrecoognized
[0:43] exceptions to the general rule that
[0:47] force shouldn't be used is self-defense,
[0:50] including collective self-defense.
[0:52] >> The mining of ports on both of
[0:54] Nicaragua's coasts now is said to have
[0:56] been halted for the time being,
[0:58] apparently because of the congressional
[1:00] outcry, not because of any actual change
[1:03] in President Reagan's policy. Nicaragua
[1:05] today took newsmen to Porto Corinto, one
[1:08] of the mining targets, and CBS's Richard
[1:10] Slesinger went along.
[1:12] >> For the first time since the mining
[1:13] began, the government opened Nicaragua's
[1:16] largest port of Corinto to foreign
[1:18] journalists. Nicaraguan officials say
[1:20] they want the world to know that the US
[1:21] is engaged in what they call terrorist
[1:24] acts.
[1:26] Military leaders at the port say last
[1:28] night's US Senate vote condemning the
[1:30] mining proves the Reagan administration
[1:32] acted illegally.
[1:34] Ships are still coming here, but the
[1:36] Sandinista leadership says many have
[1:38] been scared away. The Nicaraguans say
[1:41] the mining has cost this port between
[1:43] 175 and $200,000 and has also caused
[1:47] shortages of food, medicine, and spare
[1:49] parts. Nicaragua's interior minister,
[1:52] Tomas Bourhe calls the mining the
[1:54] gravest act committed against Nicaragua
[1:56] in the almost 5 years the Sandinistas
[1:58] have ruled here.
[2:02] The objective is not the boats per se.
[2:03] It's the cut off commerce with
[2:05] Nicaragua.
[2:06] >> There are some empty shelves in
[2:08] Nicaraguan stores. Signs say no chicken
[2:11] and no milk. Some spare parts are
[2:13] missing and some drugs are scarce. But
[2:16] businessmen say the real problem is not
[2:18] the mines. It is that Nicaragua has
[2:20] almost no foreign capital and cannot
[2:22] attract foreign investment. The mining,
[2:24] they say, just aggravates the problem.
[2:28] cases.
[2:28] >> There are no shortages for that reason.
[2:30] There have been shortages since before
[2:32] the revolution began. The Nicaraguans
[2:34] claim the mines have been removed and
[2:36] Puerto Corinto is safe now, but they are
[2:38] keeping a close eye on US military
[2:40] maneuvers just to the north in Honduras.
[2:43] And they say they would not be surprised
[2:45] if the US begins more operations in
[2:47] their territory soon. Richard Slesinger,
[2:50] CBS News, Puerto Corinto, Nicaragua.
[2:52] Kremlin leader Constantine Chernenko
[2:54] today captured a government title that
[2:56] has eluded three of the five other men
[2:58] who have ruled the Soviet Union. And he
[3:00] did it in less than a third of the time
[3:02] that it took his immediate predecessor,
[3:04] Euran drop off. This is clear proof that
[3:06] Chernenko is number one. But something
[3:08] else happened that indicated who now is
[3:10] number two. Mark Phillips reports from
[3:13] Moscow.
[3:17] Constantine Shernenko walked into the
[3:19] meeting of the Soviet Parliament today
[3:21] to assume his third major title of
[3:23] Soviet leadership, the presidency. The
[3:26] vote of the Supreme Soviet was not
[3:28] surprisingly unanimous. What is a bit
[3:31] surprising is for Chernenko to have
[3:33] assumed all the important posts of the
[3:35] Soviet Union in so short a time. In just
[3:38] two months since the death of Yuri
[3:40] Andropov, Chernyenko has become general
[3:42] secretary of the Communist Party,
[3:45] chairman of the Soviet Defense Council,
[3:47] and now president. It had taken Andropov
[3:50] 7 months to gain the same power.
[3:54] >> Chernenko gave a short acceptance speech
[3:56] after the vote. Unlike his recent
[3:58] pronouncements, Chernenko made no direct
[4:00] reference to the United States or to any
[4:03] of the major disagreements between the
[4:05] two countries. There was another clear
[4:07] sign of the state of the Soviet
[4:09] leadership today. The man nominating
[4:11] Chernenko for the presidency was Mikail
[4:14] Gorbachof. His prestigious role at this
[4:17] meeting confirmed the common feeling
[4:19] that Gorbachoff, the youngest man in the
[4:21] pilot bureau at 53, is the second most
[4:24] powerful man in the country. There's
[4:26] been a relentless quality to Chunenko's
[4:28] rise to power. And just as he has
[4:31] steadily accumulated the titles of
[4:32] state, he has just as relentlessly clung
[4:35] to the policies he inherited. This is
[4:37] not a regime given to drastic change,
[4:39] either in its handling of domestic
[4:41] affairs or in its approach to the
[4:43] international standoff with the West.
[4:45] Mark Phillips, CBS News, Moscow.
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[6:04] yet see the light of day after some
[6:05] history making nuts and bolts repair
[6:07] work on a broken satellite in space.
[6:09] Morton Dean reports on a first time ever
[6:12] repair job by a space shuttle crew.
[6:15] >> It was a work day unlike any other in
[6:17] the history of space exploration. The
[6:19] job astronauts James Van Huffton and
[6:21] George Nelson were to attempt was the
[6:23] first in-flight repair on a stricken
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[6:28] daytime.
[6:28] >> The Solar Research satellite was towed
[6:30] in for repairs yesterday.
[6:33] >> Got a few wires and we'll be ready to
[6:34] go.
[6:35] >> The estimate was that at least $190
[6:37] million could be saved if two electronic
[6:40] units were pulled out and replaced.
[6:43] >> We got one screw left
[6:44] >> and that they were. The electricians
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[6:50] specially modified batterypowered
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[6:54] >> I tell you this thing worked like a
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[6:57] back on Earth. The astronauts completed
[6:59] the job much sooner than anticipated.
[7:02] >> Like to give you verification that has
[7:04] determined that we have a good mating of
[7:06] the new module on the spacecraft.
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[7:11] >> So there was time to check out one of
[7:13] the Skywalker units, a jet powered
[7:15] backpack,
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[7:25] >> If the repairs pass the test during the
[7:27] night, the SolarMax will be put back in
[7:29] orbit to resume its attempt to solve
[7:31] some of the ageless mysteries of the
[7:33] sun. Morton Dean, CBS News, Johnson
[7:37] Space Center, Houston. After a week
[7:39] aboard the Soviet Union Salude 7 space
[7:41] station, two Soviet cosminauts and their
[7:44] guests, the world's first space traveler
[7:46] from India, left orbit and returned to
[7:48] Earth. The trio and their capsule
[7:50] floated back to the ground in Soviet
[7:52] Central Asia with Soviet TV coverage
[7:55] tonight, including an upbeat inspection
[7:57] of the charring the capsule underwent
[7:59] under the heat of re-entry and special
[8:01] emphasis at every opportunity of Soviet
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[8:06] the Indian cosminaut's presence did
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[8:10] practiced yoga in orbit to see if that
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[8:14] effects of weightlessness. It was also,
[8:16] no doubt, the first space mission
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[8:20] galley. No immediate word on whether his
[8:22] two Soviet cosminaut partners stuck to
[8:25] their own diet during the flight.
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[9:39] The House voted overwhelmingly tonight
[9:40] for new taxes aimed at reducing the huge
[9:43] federal budget deficit, $49 billion
[9:45] worth of new taxes on liquor,
[9:47] cigarettes, telephones, and businesses.
[9:49] Although written by Democrats, the tax
[9:51] increases are not opposed by the White
[9:53] House, among other reasons, because they
[9:55] don't tamper with or roll back the
[9:58] Reagan tax cut program. A somewhat
[10:00] similar tax raising bill is being
[10:02] considered by the Senate. One difference
[10:03] is that the Senate version won't change
[10:05] the cigarette tax. Earlier today, the
[10:08] Senate killed a proposal to create $700
[10:10] million in health benefits for the
[10:12] unemployed. Just one day after the
[10:14] Democrats had their Pennsylvania
[10:16] primary, a state where many voters
[10:18] wanted to know where their next job is
[10:19] coming from, President and candidate
[10:21] Ronald Reagan was on the road today to
[10:23] be seen in a part of the country where
[10:25] the new jobs have arrived. Still, as
[10:27] correspondent Leslie Stall reports,
[10:29] there was one job President Reagan
[10:30] refused to talk about. The job he's
[10:32] doing on Central America policy.
[10:35] The president came to Missouri
[10:37] determined to leave the bad news behind
[10:39] in Washington. No comment is what he and
[10:42] his spokesman said to all questions
[10:44] about Central America and the mining of
[10:47] Nicaraguan harbors.
[10:48] >> What about the mining, sir?
[10:50] >> The game plan was to associate President
[10:52] Reagan with the good news, the economic
[10:54] recovery, particularly the revival of
[10:57] the auto industry. He toured a Ford
[10:59] motor assembly plant where more than
[11:01] 5,000 auto workers are on the job
[11:04] full-time and took credit for that. His
[11:07] welcome was rousing despite the display
[11:10] of Mandel hats. Without mentioning
[11:12] Manddale by name, the president
[11:14] criticized him and the unions.
[11:17] >> They believe we should run up the flag
[11:19] in defense of our markets, embrace
[11:21] protectionism, and insulate ourselves
[11:24] from world competition.
[11:26] But we'll never meet the challenge of
[11:27] the 80s with that kind of defeist
[11:29] mentality.
[11:31] >> Confident after winning yesterday's
[11:33] Pennsylvania primary, Montdale also
[11:35] campaigned among labor in Missouri
[11:37] today, arguing that President Reagan is
[11:39] anything but a friend to the working
[11:42] man.
[11:42] >> Reagan is in an auto plant is like a fox
[11:45] visiting a chicken coupe. This is the
[11:48] same president who said of Chrysler,
[11:50] "What's wrong with bankruptcy?"
[11:53] This is supposed to be Manddale country,
[11:56] but a lot of bluecollar workers,
[11:58] traditional Democrats, like Ronald
[12:00] Reagan. He won 43% of their vote in
[12:03] 1980. The president's campaign advisers
[12:07] think they can win that vote again. They
[12:09] say Labor tended to stick by the
[12:11] president even at the height of the
[12:13] recession.
[12:14] >> They uh appreciate his stance on
[12:16] traditional values. They many of them
[12:18] favor a strong defense. They obviously
[12:21] don't like to pay taxes any any more
[12:23] than the average Americans.
[12:26] >> But the president's support among labor
[12:29] may have some soft spots. Many workers
[12:31] here who switched parties and voted for
[12:33] Mr. Reagan last time say they're
[12:35] switching back.
[12:36] >> He's worried about selling the nation.
[12:38] See, I've I this is a productive plant.
[12:41] These people are at work and and they're
[12:43] they're not hurt and look what I've
[12:45] done. And he hasn't done anything. I'd
[12:48] like to see Ronald Reagan go to Detroit
[12:50] and uh to the plant that I came from
[12:52] where the gates are closed and locked.
[12:54] >> The White House says this is a
[12:56] non-political trip, so the taxpayers and
[12:59] not the Reagan campaign are paying for
[13:01] it. The president will continue to
[13:03] travel to areas where the economy is
[13:05] healthy, trying to keep his much
[13:07] criticized foreign policy from
[13:09] intruding. Leslie Stall, CBS News,
[13:12] Claycomo, Missouri. After seven weeks of
[13:15] almost non-stop campaigning for more
[13:17] than 30 state primaries and caucuses,
[13:19] the Democratic presidential candidates
[13:20] have their first real timeout. With
[13:22] about a month until the next big contest
[13:24] for delegates, there's time to reflect
[13:26] not just on what happens now, but what's
[13:29] happened already. Meredith Vieira has a
[13:31] case in point in Pennsylvania where
[13:33] yesterday's primary demonstrates what
[13:35] the phrase soft support for a candidate
[13:38] really means. And it doesn't mean the
[13:40] voters don't care.
[13:43] >> Hello. Hi,
[13:44] >> I'm Mrs. Minger, the committee woman.
[13:46] >> For 30 years, Mrs. Malinger has made it
[13:48] her business to influence her Democratic
[13:50] neighbors in Pittsburgh's Uclid Avenue
[13:52] area.
[13:53] >> I'm the lady that, you know, knows who
[13:55] the good candidates are.
[13:57] >> Last Sunday, she was at it again
[13:59] campaigning for herself and another
[14:01] local candidate. But when it came to
[14:03] pushing a candidate for president,
[14:05] >> oh, I don't care. Neither it seems to
[14:07] most of the people who live along Uklid
[14:09] Avenue. On the eve of the primary, more
[14:11] than half the voters we spoke to, young
[14:13] and old alike, still didn't know who
[14:15] they wanted, and no one was enthused
[14:18] about the choices. Bruce Davico said he
[14:20] wanted to be enthused. As a social
[14:22] worker, he said he's had it with
[14:24] regonomics.
[14:25] >> You can't watch the local news without
[14:27] seeing people losing their jobs.
[14:29] >> But two days before the primary, Dabrico
[14:32] was just barely leaning toward Montdale
[14:34] and not very happy about it. I I don't I
[14:36] don't like the way Mont Manddale has
[14:38] come across.
[14:39] >> Dolores Spaven was leaning toward hard,
[14:42] but she wasn't happy either.
[14:43] >> I'm not in the least. Not enthused about
[14:46] the Middle East least.
[14:47] >> Down the block, Tom Webb and Lisa
[14:48] Rolleig weren't leaning towards anyone.
[14:51] >> They're not giving us hope. I think
[14:52] that's what I feel. They're not giving
[14:54] us any real hope.
[14:55] >> We just might sit this race out. They
[14:57] said we can't find a candidate.
[14:59] >> They really don't seem genuine at all. I
[15:01] feel that strongly. What are they
[15:04] seeing?
[15:05] >> Fake.
[15:06] >> On Tuesday, the local races got off to a
[15:08] fast start. Between incumbent Malinger
[15:11] and her opponent Helen Spano, there was
[15:13] plenty of emotion to go around,
[15:15] >> but Dolores Spaven couldn't muster up
[15:17] any when it came to the presidential
[15:19] vote.
[15:20] >> I I really haven't made up my mind as
[15:22] yet. You're only about 50 yards from the
[15:24] >> I know I am.
[15:25] >> Spven finally voted for Hart. Dabberco
[15:28] finally voted for Mandel.
[15:29] >> I guess it's a pragmatic vote for me. I
[15:31] think u Mandelle stands a better chance
[15:34] of winning.
[15:34] >> Are you enthused as you walk into that
[15:36] voting booth?
[15:37] >> No, I'm not enthused.
[15:38] >> As for Tom and Lisa, they decided it was
[15:41] important to vote after all. And so they
[15:43] did for Montdale. No real reason given.
[15:46] That didn't surprise local candidate
[15:47] Jerry Marone.
[15:48] >> They go through the motion of voting,
[15:51] but the majority of the people do not
[15:53] believe that their vote is going to
[15:54] change anything in this election because
[15:58] they don't believe Rean can be beat.
[16:00] When it was over, most of the
[16:01] neighborhood had voted. Their numbers
[16:03] were neatly tallied and a big victory
[16:05] declared for Montdale. That's what he's
[16:08] talking about today. But along Uclid
[16:10] Avenue, they're talking about Helen
[16:12] Spano beating Anne Malager.
[16:14] >> Would you believe it?
[16:15] >> There is some political passion on Uclid
[16:17] Avenue today, but it has nothing to do
[16:19] with presidential politics. Meredith
[16:21] Fier, CBS News, Pittsburgh.
[16:24] Incidentally, with more than half the
[16:25] delegates to the Democratic convention
[16:26] now chosen. Here's how the quest for the
[16:28] magic number, the 1,967
[16:31] delegates needed for nomination stacks
[16:33] up after Pennsylvania. Montdale over
[16:35] Hart by almost 2 to1, but with some big
[16:38] contests for big delegate blocks yet to
[16:40] come. The Federal Trade Commission today
[16:43] formally approved General Motors and
[16:44] Toyota's plan to jointly build small
[16:46] cars in Fremont, California. Foes of the
[16:49] project immediately repeated charges
[16:51] that it violates antitrust laws and
[16:53] Chrysler Corporation said it will press
[16:55] its lawsuit against the project. A judge
[16:58] in Riverside, California today announced
[17:01] his sentencing for nurse Robert Diaz.
[17:03] The sentence to die in the gas chamber
[17:06] for killing 12 elderly patients with
[17:08] heart drug overdoses. The 46-year-old
[17:10] Diaz was convicted last month of the
[17:12] murders which took place in two
[17:13] hospitals during March and April 1981.
[17:16] No date has been set for execution and
[17:18] the sentence will be automatically
[17:19] appealed.
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[18:30] >> The Southeast Asian Republic of
[18:31] Singapore is a small, flat, once swampy
[18:34] island that has achieved an enviable
[18:36] standard of living in a region known for
[18:38] its poverty. To maintain this,
[18:40] Singapore's government has made family
[18:42] planning the law. Now, the government
[18:44] wants to go further. It is encouraging
[18:46] something reminiscent of two great works
[18:48] of literature that portray frightening
[18:50] glimpses of the future, 1984 and Brave
[18:54] New World. Wyatt Andrews reports.
[18:57] >> This is not fiction. This is Singapore,
[19:00] where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yu is
[19:03] asking the smart people of his society
[19:06] to reproduce themselves. We can sustain
[19:08] that society only if
[19:12] we've got the creative spark.
[19:17] >> The nation is losing its spark of
[19:19] talent. He warns women with no education
[19:22] or having too many babies while women
[19:24] with college degrees have too few. The
[19:27] result, he says, a crop of babies not
[19:30] smart enough to lead the future. you cut
[19:32] down that creative element,
[19:36] the lifts won't function, power stations
[19:39] will blow,
[19:42] the place will sack.
[19:44] >> Lee's fears have become government
[19:47] policy. There are now incentives for
[19:49] smart women to have more children. in
[19:51] effect to breed a smarter society.
[19:54] Beginning immediately, only those
[19:56] children whose mothers have college
[19:58] degrees will get the highest priority
[20:01] for admission to Singapore's best
[20:03] schools.
[20:05] And in Singapore's competitive society,
[20:08] admission to the best schools is serious
[20:10] stuff. Critics call the policy illegal
[20:13] social engineering.
[20:16] I feel that we are breeding people, you
[20:18] know, we are, you know, gene, you're
[20:20] playing around with genes and who's more
[20:22] intelligent and who's not.
[20:23] >> Unfair discrimination. I mean, what
[20:25] happens if I fall in love with a woman
[20:26] who is not a graduate?
[20:28] >> That was pretty unfair.
[20:30] >> It is an unusual controversy for Lee
[20:33] Kuanu. In the last 25 years, he has led
[20:36] the transformation of Singapore from a
[20:38] quaint British colony into a booming
[20:41] financial center. Even critics call him
[20:43] a brilliant social planner.
[20:45] >> Not this time. This time in a page right
[20:48] out of 1984, they are calling him big
[20:50] brother.
[20:51] >> In the year 2000 and beyond, I must have
[20:54] a government that's functioning.
[20:56] >> By asking the bright to breed, the prime
[20:58] minister says he is confronting a
[21:01] problem all modern governments must
[21:03] face. That educated women who work tend
[21:05] to have fewer babies. and the ethics of
[21:08] breeding aside that one day the world of
[21:10] the future will pay for that loss of
[21:13] talent. Wyatt Andrews, CBS News,
[21:16] Singapore. They reported CIA directed
[21:19] mining of Nicaraguan harbors and
[21:21] congressional reaction are the subject
[21:23] of Bill Moyer's commentary tonight. Bill
[21:26] Dan, that was a pretty hollow thing the
[21:27] senators did yesterday, passing a
[21:29] resolution with no teeth to it. They
[21:31] could have stopped the CIA's war against
[21:33] Nicaragua with a binding vote, but that
[21:35] might make them sitting ducks in
[21:37] November when Ronald Reagan tries to
[21:39] prove who's the toughest ombre on the
[21:41] block. So, the Senate's playing it both
[21:43] ways, providing the money and then
[21:45] huffing at the administration for using
[21:46] it. Of course, the Reagan people had
[21:48] tried to get the money by attaching the
[21:50] request to a bill providing funds to
[21:52] help poor people in this country pay for
[21:54] home heating. They also coupled
[21:56] assistance to El Salvador to relief for
[21:59] the hungry of Africa. They wanted to
[22:01] force senators who oppose intervention
[22:02] in Central America to vote against poor
[22:05] and starving people elsewhere. The
[22:07] spectacle is indicative of our confusion
[22:09] towards these dirty little wars. We
[22:11] don't really have the stomach for them
[22:13] and with good reason. 30 years ago, in
[22:15] the midst of fresh cold war tensions,
[22:17] the White House asked a group of
[22:19] prominent Americans to prepare a report
[22:21] on the future of the CIA. They
[22:23] concluded, and I quote, that
[22:25] long-standing American concepts of fair
[22:27] play must be reconsidered. We must learn
[22:30] to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our
[22:33] enemies by more clever, more
[22:34] sophisticated, and more effective
[22:36] methods than those used against us." End
[22:38] quote. Over the years, government
[22:41] invoked this secret charter to lie to
[22:43] the American people, to violate US and
[22:45] international law, to plot the
[22:47] assassination of foreign leaders, to
[22:49] enlist members of organized crime and
[22:50] official intrigue, to wage war on the
[22:53] economy of other countries, and to
[22:54] funnel money and arms to corrupt regimes
[22:57] that use them to enrich a favored few
[22:59] while showing contemptuous disregard for
[23:01] the rights of common people. What we got
[23:03] for all this was dubious. What we've
[23:06] lost is obvious. No longer can we so
[23:09] easily bear witness as a nation to the
[23:11] standards of international law. When the
[23:13] Soviet delegate to the United Nations
[23:15] says that the mining of Nicaraguan
[23:17] harbors is a new chapter of
[23:19] international terrorism, he has to keep
[23:21] his hands in his pockets to hide the
[23:23] stains of hypocrisy. I think that behind
[23:25] the confusion in Washington these days
[23:28] is the knowledge that our own hands
[23:30] aren't so clean either.
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[25:16] Man reopened a California highway today
[25:18] that nature shut down. Terry Drinkwater
[25:21] explains why that's a cause for
[25:22] celebration.
[25:25] It took more than $7 million and nearly
[25:28] a year to undo what nature did in
[25:30] minutes when in a torrential rainstorm,
[25:32] the land slid, cutting historic Highway
[25:35] 1 in half. 5 million tons of rock and
[25:38] dirt had to be bulldozed into the
[25:40] Pacific below. The biggest highway
[25:42] repair job in US history. Vintage cars
[25:45] dating back to the 30s when the road was
[25:47] built led the caravan past the unrivaled
[25:50] vistas to this morning's ceremonies. It
[25:53] was and still is the most expensive
[25:55] two-lane stretch in the country. Back
[25:57] then, President Hoover pronounced it an
[25:59] engineering feat. The first opening was
[26:02] no less gay than today's with a cake
[26:05] spanning a highway. Since January of
[26:07] last year, the detour around the slides
[26:10] on Highway 1 was 300 m in 9 hours. There
[26:13] were few tourists indeed. Businesses
[26:16] lost $18 million. But today, visitors
[26:19] were back in numbers.
[26:21] >> It's just amazing. You look forward and
[26:23] all you see is the the ocean and the and
[26:25] the white water crashing up on the
[26:26] rocks. And you look behind you and you
[26:27] see the, you know, the soft green of the
[26:30] hillside.
[26:31] >> There are faster ways, jets and freeways
[26:33] to go between Northern and Southern
[26:35] California. But surely this is the
[26:38] better way. This year, a record 3
[26:40] million sightseers are expected.
[26:42] >> Of course, some who live here regret the
[26:45] highway was ever reopened. In the past
[26:47] 14 months, there was nothing except
[26:49] peace and quiet. Terry Drinkwater, CBS
[26:52] News, Big Su, California.
[26:56] >> And that's the CBS Evening News for this
[26:58] Wednesday. Dan Rather reporting from New
[26:59] York. Thank you for joining us. Good
[27:01] night.
[27:04] >> H, I see your desk's got a computer on
[27:06] it.
[27:06] >> Yeah, smart desk. Going to the game?
[27:08] >> Me? I don't need a computer. I just call
[27:10] Bert. What if Bert's not in? I wait till
[27:12] Bert's back.
[27:14] >> Who's playing? Detroit.
[27:15] >> You know, I don't know how I managed
[27:17] before.
[27:17] >> Well, the machines and I just don't mix.
[27:19] Know what I mean?
[27:20] >> Sure. I'll see you at the game.
[27:21] >> Yeah, actually I've got a little more to
[27:23] do.
[27:24] >> Some people don't need an IBM computer
[27:26] on their desk.
[27:28] Is
[27:28] >> that you, Bert?
[27:29] >> The smart desk is for people who do.
[27:31] >> He's at the game.
[27:35] >> When your car starts acting up,
[27:38] it's really trying to tell you
[27:40] something. What it's saying is, "Take me
[27:42] to Goodyear."
[27:44] Goodyear Auto Service can add years to
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[27:51] >> My Goodyear technicians can do
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[27:59] >> Goodyear tires and auto service in your
[28:03] car.
[28:05] >> Nope. No butter. I'm eating lighter.
[28:07] >> We all are.
[28:08] >> Even if it's margarine, there's nothing
[28:10] light about that.
[28:10] >> Everything's light about this. 25% less
[28:13] salt, fat, and calories, and no
[28:15] cholesterol.
[28:15] >> Fleshman's Light. 25% less salt, 25%
[28:19] less fat, 25% less calories than regular
[28:22] margarine.
[28:23] >> It's delicious. So why should I eat dry
[28:25] toast?
[28:26] >> Beats me.
[28:28] >> Fleshman's Light. 25% less salt, fat,
[28:30] and calories.
[28:43] I'm Bill Curtis. Tomorrow, Hollywood
[28:44] faces up to its drug problem. Land at
[28:46] our 8:30 half hour flight star Daryl
[28:48] Hannah wake up to what's happening on
[28:50] the CBS Morning News.
[28:53] >> This is CBS.
[28:56] Coming up on Eyewitness News, the search
[28:58] intensifies for an escaped inmate in
[29:00] West Tennessee as the governor