CBS Evening News - 1999-09-07

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[0:02] The biggest media marriage in history.

[0:04] Viacom is buying CBS, forming an

[0:07] international entertainment mega

[0:09] company. Tonight, what's behind the deal

[0:11] and what it means to you. Puerto Rican

[0:14] nationalists are accepting President

[0:16] Clinton's conditional offer of clemency.

[0:19] And Eye on America, a remarkable woman

[0:22] donates a kidney today to save the life

[0:25] of a perfect stranger.

[0:29] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:34] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:36] headquarters in New York. Good evening.

[0:40] A new multimedia giant will soon control

[0:43] an enormous amount of the entertainment

[0:45] seen, read, and experienced by millions

[0:48] of people around the world. Viacom is

[0:50] buying CBS, parent of CBS News, for a

[0:54] price of about $36 billion. The merged

[0:57] company, it is said, will have assets

[0:59] valued at about $80 billion.

[1:02] This big new company brings under one

[1:04] umbrella some of the best known

[1:06] franchises in media. From CBS TV to MTV,

[1:10] from Imus in the Morning to Nick at

[1:12] Night, correspondent Anthony Mason

[1:14] begins our coverage.

[1:17] >> The superlatives were flying as Viacom

[1:19] and CBS announced the biggest media

[1:21] merger ever. Just how big? When you

[1:24] think about the new Viacom, you really

[1:27] only have to remember a single number.

[1:32] That's number one.

[1:33] >> Wall Street agreed a new media colossus

[1:36] has been born.

[1:37] >> The pieces are enormous. There will be

[1:39] very little that can touch it. Coming

[1:41] together in the merged company will be

[1:43] the CBS television network, the UPN TV

[1:46] network, 34 television stations, the

[1:48] nearly 200 radio stations owned by

[1:51] Infinity Broadcasting, Paramount

[1:53] Studios, the cable channels, MTV, VH1,

[1:57] Nickelodeon, Showtime, and the Nashville

[1:59] Network, Blockbuster Video Stores, and

[2:02] the publishers Simon and Schuster. This

[2:04] is as diverse as you can get and

[2:07] tremendous power in every single one of

[2:10] their categories. They will rank in the

[2:12] top three in everything.

[2:14] >> We truly believe we are the 21st century

[2:17] media company and there is no other

[2:20] company that could serve the audiences

[2:22] that we have.

[2:23] >> The marriage will also unite two

[2:25] notoriously aggressive media titans.

[2:28] Viacom 76-year-old chairman Sumar

[2:30] Redstone pushed aside his two top aids.

[2:33] I insisted that Mel come with the deal

[2:37] >> to make Mel Carmason of CBS the new

[2:39] company's president. It may be called

[2:41] Viacom, but all operations will report

[2:44] to Karmas.

[2:44] >> And I personally want you to know again

[2:46] how much I'm going to enjoy uh working

[2:48] with Sumner and making Sumner's stock

[2:51] worth more than Bill Gates's stock. So

[2:53] that's my goal. The merged company may

[2:55] have to sell off some TV stations to

[2:57] satisfy FCC ownership limits, but

[3:00] analysts believe the biggest media

[3:02] merger in history will get the go-ahad

[3:04] and bigger mergers may follow. Anthony

[3:07] Mason, CBS News, Boston. Beyond Wall

[3:11] Street and corporate boardrooms, both

[3:12] Redstone and Carmason insisted today

[3:14] that what they call the merger will be

[3:17] good for the audience at large. We asked

[3:19] CBS News correspondent Sandra Hughes to

[3:22] check into that for you.

[3:25] It's a merger of Titanic proportions.

[3:28] The company that produced this film

[3:30] joining forces with the company that

[3:31] brings you 60 Minutes.

[3:33] >> All in all, it's hard to see a negative

[3:34] in the deal.

[3:35] >> But there is concern that viewers may

[3:37] miss a gem of a program if the once

[3:40] dubbed Tiffany Network feels the

[3:41] pressure to use more shows from its own

[3:44] studio. The whole new economics of the

[3:46] television business is the networks want

[3:48] to own the shows that they air. And so,

[3:53] >> and what does that mean for a viewer?

[3:54] >> For a viewer, it means a lesser show may

[3:58] get picked up and may wind up on the

[4:00] false schedule because it comes from

[4:03] internal channels rather than the most

[4:05] promising, the funniest, the best show.

[4:08] >> But CBS President Mel Carmason said

[4:10] today the emphasis will stay on good

[4:13] programming. There is no other media

[4:15] company that you would be able to find

[4:17] that would have as much desirable

[4:20] programming as we have from all of our

[4:23] collective assets.

[4:25] >> No matter what happens to programming,

[4:27] viewers will be seeing a lot more

[4:29] advertising for the shows. CBS can

[4:31] promote its fall lineup on MTV and VH1.

[4:34] Paramount Movies can be advertised on

[4:36] CBS radio and outdoor billboards. But is

[4:40] bigger better? In the broad scheme,

[4:42] there are a lot of consumer advocates

[4:44] very concerned about the consolidation

[4:46] and what it means to diversity of voices

[4:50] in media.

[4:51] >> This is the CBS.

[4:53] >> The name of the company may change, but

[4:54] the CBS brand lives on. The biggest

[4:57] change viewers see may not be on the big

[4:59] or small screen, but on the computer

[5:01] screen. CBS, already heavily invested in

[5:04] the internet, has the infrastructure via

[5:06] the brand names. Put the two together

[5:08] and many predict an explosion of new

[5:10] programming ideas for the net. Sandra

[5:13] Hughes, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[5:15] >> On the purchase, or if you prefer merger

[5:17] news, both Viacom and CBS stock gained

[5:20] about two points today. Elsewhere on

[5:22] Wall Street, profit taking set in. The

[5:23] Dow down 44 points. Over on the NASDAQ,

[5:26] stocks were off nearly six points.

[5:29] Jailed Puerto Rican nationalists gave

[5:31] their answers today to President

[5:33] Clinton's conditional office of

[5:35] clemency. 12 of the 16 accepted the

[5:38] terms. Now the president and his wife

[5:41] will have to deal with the fallout from

[5:42] an explosive issue. CBS News chief White

[5:45] House correspondent John Roberts has the

[5:47] latest on this.

[5:48] >> It took nearly a month of deliberation

[5:50] and the threat of a Friday deadline for

[5:52] 12 of the 16 FALN members to announce

[5:55] they would accept the president's deal.

[5:57] >> Men and women who have dedicated their

[5:59] lives to the freedom of their country

[6:02] >> deserve to be free. The 16 had been

[6:05] sentenced to as much as 50 years in

[6:07] prison for their association with the

[6:09] Puerto Rican nationalist movement, which

[6:11] in the 1970s and 80s carried out a

[6:13] series of bombings, including this one

[6:15] at France's Tavern on Wall Street that

[6:17] killed four people and injured 60. Those

[6:20] offered clemency were never convicted of

[6:22] shedding blood, but they were still

[6:23] heavily involved in terrorist activities

[6:26] and were sentenced, among other things,

[6:27] for possession of explosives. Former

[6:30] NYPD officer Richard Pascarella was

[6:32] blinded and lost five fingers on his

[6:34] right hand in an FAL attack. He is

[6:37] outraged that 12 would be released.

[6:39] >> They will reorganize. They will again uh

[6:44] force their ideology on the American

[6:46] public with the bomb and with the gun.

[6:49] Republicans charge a political motive

[6:51] behind the offer, saying the president

[6:52] was trying to curry favor among Puerto

[6:55] Rican voters who sympathize with the

[6:56] group to boost Hillary Clinton's

[6:58] possible run for the Senate in New York.

[7:00] All of a sudden, this president grants

[7:02] clemency and um does it on conditions

[7:06] and he's a president that wants to make

[7:08] a stand against terrorism. So, it raises

[7:10] very legitimate questions. The first

[7:12] lady herself complicated matters over

[7:14] the weekend when she said that the offer

[7:16] should be rescended after initially

[7:17] supporting it. That drew fire both from

[7:20] Democratic Hispanics who said that they

[7:21] felt that she had abandoned them and

[7:23] from Republicans who claimed the first

[7:25] lady was using her position to

[7:26] manipulate New York politics. Dan John

[7:29] Roberts at the White House. CBS News has

[7:31] confirmed that US Attorney General Janet

[7:33] Reno has decided on former Republican

[7:35] Senator John Danforth of Missouri to

[7:38] lead a new investigation subject the

[7:41] renewed controversy about the siege at

[7:43] Branch Devilian headquarters near Waco,

[7:46] Texas. At issue, recent disclosures that

[7:49] the FBI covered up the fact that it used

[7:51] flammable tear gas canisters hours

[7:54] before the group's compound went up in

[7:56] flames, killing 80 people. Still ahead

[7:58] on tonight's CBS Evening News, a

[8:01] landmark decision looming in the strange

[8:03] case of the Capitol Hill shooter. Chaos

[8:06] in Indonesia brings calls for foreign

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[9:53] Cisneros pleaded guilty today to one

[9:56] misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI.

[9:58] Cisneros now con admits that he

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[10:05] Cisneros was to go to trial today on 18

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[10:15] A judge is expected to rule this week on

[10:17] a case that pushes the limits of

[10:19] medicine and the law. At the center of

[10:21] it is the man accused of killing two

[10:23] people in the Capitol Hill shootings a

[10:25] year ago. CBS's Scott P has been working

[10:28] this story for tonight's 60 Minutes,

[10:30] too. He has new information, including

[10:32] video evidence of the current mental

[10:34] state of the accused. Scott. Dan. When

[10:37] Russell Weston opened fire in the US

[10:39] Capitol building, no one knew just how

[10:41] deranged he was. We now have some

[10:44] insight into his mind in the form of a

[10:46] taped interview. It was done by a

[10:48] psychiatrist working on the case. Weston

[10:51] has also explained his bizarre motive

[10:53] for the capital murders.

[10:56] Weston stormed the capital building July

[10:58] 24th last year. He murdered officer

[11:00] Jacob Chestnut and detective John

[11:02] Gibson. Weston has told a government

[11:05] psychiatrist that he was in the capital

[11:07] trying to reach a time machine. Weston

[11:10] explained that he had to seize control

[11:12] of the machine or the earth would be

[11:14] destroyed. That is just one of his many

[11:17] psychotic delusions. In the interview

[11:19] with a psychiatrist, Weston says he is

[11:22] on a crusade to wipe out cannibalism in

[11:25] America and he explains how he kills the

[11:27] cannibals.

[11:28] >> I usually boil them in sour crude oil is

[11:32] usually what I do.

[11:34] >> Boil who in sour crude oil?

[11:35] >> The cannibals.

[11:36] >> The cannibals. which here in Washington

[11:38] DC it amounts between 40 and 50,000

[11:41] cannibals. I will put them in sour crude

[11:44] oil that's boiling hot and whenever they

[11:48] get done they're they turn out to be

[11:51] hard of the rock

[11:52] >> and and what happens to them after that?

[11:55] >> Well, they're usually deceased usually.

[11:56] Then I put a rope on them and I hang

[11:58] them up around Washington DC and all of

[12:01] the rest of the people who see these

[12:03] blackened corpses all over town know

[12:06] that cannibalism will not be tolerated.

[12:10] >> Weston was found incompetent to stand

[12:12] trial. But now prosecutors are asking a

[12:15] federal judge to force Weston to take

[12:17] anti-csychotic drugs. They hope to make

[12:20] him sane enough to prosecute and perhaps

[12:22] face the death penalty. A decision from

[12:25] the judge is expected any day and we'll

[12:27] have more of the interview tonight on 60

[12:29] Minutes 2. Dan

[12:30] >> Scott Py, thanks. What could be a record

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[12:54] tonight's CBS Evening News, more chaos

[12:56] in Indonesia as US and world leaders

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[15:06] More horror stories are flooding out of

[15:08] East Tumor and Indonesia tonight along

[15:10] with thousands of refugees. Those

[15:12] refugees are fleeing a rampage by

[15:14] anti-independence forces. The Indonesian

[15:17] government says it can control the

[15:19] situation, but the government itself is

[15:21] accused of encouraging the violence.

[15:24] This latest trouble broke out last week

[15:26] when the United Nations announced an

[15:27] overwhelming majority of East Tumor's

[15:30] people had voted for independence from

[15:32] Indonesia. CBS's Richard Roth has the

[15:34] latest.

[15:36] East Teour's troubles today echoed on

[15:38] the streets of Indonesia's capital,

[15:40] Jakarta. Angry demonstrators who say the

[15:43] army is behind the wave of violence in

[15:45] the province. Riot police put down this

[15:48] protest in Jakarta. But even martial law

[15:51] ordered in East Teour hasn't stopped the

[15:53] madness there.

[15:55] The UN headquarters in East Teour's main

[15:58] city opened its gate 48 hours ago to

[16:00] give refuge to terrified civilians. But

[16:03] with bullets being fired overhead, a

[16:06] Dutch journalist trapped inside says

[16:08] it's no safe haven. The Indonesian

[16:11] police, the army, and the minister.

[16:14] They're all firing.

[16:16] >> There are more than 2,000 desperate

[16:18] people inside with less than 2 days

[16:20] supply of food and water.

[16:22] >> There's very little to accommodate these

[16:25] people. They are lying in every corner

[16:27] of the of the compound.

[16:30] >> Armed gangs began killing and looting

[16:32] after East Teour voted for independence

[16:35] from Indonesia. The army is accused of

[16:37] letting the violence go on as a lesson

[16:40] to those who challenge Indonesia's rule.

[16:43] Apparently hoping to demonstrate

[16:44] goodwill today, Indonesian authorities

[16:47] freed an East Teeour rebel leader who's

[16:49] been jailed for 7 years. Jose Gush Mau

[16:53] promptly begged the international

[16:54] community to act.

[16:56] >> Help to stop the violence, to stop the

[17:01] killings.

[17:04] But as thousands of people are being

[17:05] forced out of East Teeour in fear,

[17:08] Indonesia's shown no interest in letting

[17:11] foreign peacekeepers in. Richard Roth,

[17:14] CBS News, London. A spokesman for

[17:17] President Clinton says the US will not

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[20:02] Colombia, the country that supplies most

[20:04] of the cocaine and heroin on US streets,

[20:07] may indeed be in need of quote emergency

[20:10] US aid. That's the view of top US

[20:13] officials increasingly concerned that

[20:15] the elected government of Colombia could

[20:17] collapse soon under the weight of a

[20:19] leftist rebellion, rampant crime, and

[20:23] the country's worst economic recession

[20:24] in decades.

[20:26] >> Well, I've been watching uh Colombia

[20:28] closely for six years. It's in an

[20:31] emergency situation.

[20:33] >> After occupying a key power plant last

[20:36] week, left-wing rebels reportedly have

[20:38] followed up in the past few days by

[20:39] capturing more territory. On the other

[20:42] side, right-wing vigilantes are blamed

[20:44] for more slaughtering of civilians. The

[20:47] escalating civil war pits the Colombian

[20:49] government against Marxist

[20:51] revolutionaries who finance their

[20:52] operations now with vast amounts of drug

[20:54] money. They control a chunk of Southern

[20:57] Colombia, the size of California. So, US

[21:00] drugs are Barry McAffrey wants to triple

[21:03] US military and economic aid to Bogota

[21:06] asking for $1 billion to help the

[21:08] government fight the rebels.

[21:10] >> I don't think they're going to topple

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[21:13] to see is continued agony a million

[21:17] refugees internally in Colombia, more

[21:19] than in Kosovo.

[21:20] >> Some Republicans are furious with

[21:22] McAffrey and the whole Clinton

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[21:25] danger too late and now offering to do

[21:28] too little. Colombia is on the verge of

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[21:32] >> Republican Dan Burton, whose committee

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[21:36] will expand their efforts across

[21:38] Colombia's borders.

[21:39] >> The fact of the matter is all of the

[21:41] countries around Colombia are in

[21:43] jeopardy today.

[21:44] >> Burton believes that even includes the

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[21:49] 5 to6 billion in assistance, far more

[21:52] than the Clinton administration has so

[21:54] far been willing to invest. What are the

[21:56] chances or do you think there is any

[21:57] chance that part of what's in their mind

[21:59] is saying we start down this slippery

[22:02] slope and we're going to wind up with a

[22:04] large US military force in Colombia and

[22:06] it'll be Vietnam all over again?

[22:08] >> Well, my answer to that would be if we

[22:10] don't do what's necessary by helping

[22:12] those people down there who are willing

[22:13] to fight for themselves and for us, then

[22:16] we will be down there.

[22:18] US special forces members are active

[22:20] inside Colombia, but US officials deny

[22:23] that the US military is preparing to

[22:25] intervene in Colombia in any major

[22:27] military way. They do say it's possible

[22:29] the US could eventually broker a peace

[22:31] agreement and then contribute

[22:32] peacekeepers to enforce it. Up next, I

[22:35] on America, the latest on the story of a

[22:37] woman donating a kidney to save a child.

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[23:52] >> and Pacifica, California.

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[24:01] >> 22 points.

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[24:08] >> We ate ours with raisins. win ours with

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[24:47] In last night's Eye on America, CBS

[24:49] introduced you to a very special woman,

[24:51] a nurse who works for an organization

[24:53] that procures internal human organs for

[24:56] people in need. She decided to become a

[24:58] donor herself and give one of her own

[25:00] kidneys to anyone who might need it.

[25:03] Today, as Richard Slesinger reports, a

[25:06] life-saving transplant began.

[25:10] >> Joyce Roush walked into John's Hopkins

[25:13] Hospital this morning to keep a promise

[25:14] to herself and to a boy she barely

[25:17] knows.

[25:18] >> Rock and roll.

[25:20] >> She's donating a kidney to 13-year-old

[25:23] Christopher Beick, who's been on

[25:24] dialysis every day since his kidneys

[25:27] failed last year. She'd never even met

[25:30] him until last week. I feel great.

[25:34] >> Most people don't say that on the

[25:36] morning of surgery.

[25:37] >> You know what I thought about all the

[25:38] way out here last night? That last night

[25:40] was Christopher's last night of

[25:41] dialysis.

[25:42] >> The surgery Joyce will go through is

[25:44] relatively new and easier than it used

[25:46] to be. But there is still some risk.

[25:49] >> Love you.

[25:51] >> Don't worry.

[25:52] >> Doctors make several small incisions and

[25:54] remove the kidney through one of them.

[25:56] Dr. Lloyd Ratner pioneered the surgery.

[25:59] When Joyce heard about it, she felt it

[26:00] was something she could do. And more

[26:02] than that, she felt it was something she

[26:04] had to do, even though nobody she knew

[26:07] needed a transplant.

[26:09] >> You had never had a request like this.

[26:11] >> No.

[26:13] Did you, pardon the expression, but did

[26:15] you think she was crazy?

[26:17] >> Well, it crossed my mind

[26:20] because it's an unusual request. Joyce's

[26:24] family waited alongside Christopher's as

[26:26] the morning operation to remove the

[26:28] kidney went along as planned.

[26:31] >> I think she's doing fine.

[26:33] >> 4 hours after they began, doctors had

[26:36] Joyce's kidney. Christopher was already

[26:38] prepared and waiting for it to be

[26:40] delivered to his operating room.

[26:43] It

[26:43] >> was really a nice looking kidney.

[26:45] Beautiful vessels and it should do

[26:47] great.

[26:48] >> So, Christopher got first class kidney.

[26:52] Christopher has a 95% chance his kidney

[26:55] will last at least a year and an even

[26:57] chance it will last at least 15 years.

[27:00] Before the operation, Joyce said that

[27:02] makes everything worth it.

[27:04] >> For a few days of discomfort, there's a

[27:06] little boy who's going to have a normal

[27:07] life.

[27:09] It's not a very big cost for a pretty

[27:11] big gain.

[27:12] >> The operation was a success. Joyce will

[27:15] be in the hospital for 2 or 3 days and

[27:17] she expects to be back at work in about

[27:19] 2 weeks. The whole purpose for us

[27:22] developing this newer operation was to

[27:25] try and make it easier for people to

[27:27] donate.

[27:28] >> Christopher could go home next week to

[27:30] spend his first night at home in almost

[27:32] a year without dialysis.

[27:35] In Baltimore, I'm Richard Slesinger for

[27:37] Eye on America. And that's part of our

[27:40] world tonight. I'll be back later with

[27:41] 60 Minutes 2. We'll have Scott Pelly's

[27:43] report on the Capitol Hill shooter and

[27:45] much more.

[27:48] If you thought the days of the gold rush

[27:49] were over, tonight we'll introduce you

[27:51] to a man who got some advice on where to

[27:54] dig and struck it rich. Plus, what do

[27:57] you get when you bring together Mike

[27:59] Wallace and Oprah Winfrey 13 years after

[28:02] their first interview? A 60 Minutes

[28:04] classic.

[28:06] >> 60 Minutes 2 tonight at 98 central time

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[28:12] News, Dan Rather reporting. I'll see you

[28:15] again soon on 60 Minutes 2.

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