CNN Headline News snippet - 1992-11-06

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[0:00] know if he got the virus from her, she

[0:01] got it from him, or neither one. A

[0:04] request by news media to unseal

[0:06] documents in the woman's suit were

[0:08] partially fulfilled today by a federal

[0:09] judge, but he refused to reveal her

[0:11] name, citing possible harm to the

[0:13] woman's four-year-old daughter. A

[0:15] federal judge in Los Angeles has blocked

[0:17] the US Navy from discharging a

[0:19] homosexual sailor. A judge ordered the

[0:21] Navy to reinstate Keith Minehold, a

[0:24] specialist in anti-ubmarine warfare. The

[0:26] 36-year-old sailor disclosed his sexual

[0:28] orientation in a television interview

[0:30] last spring. Three months later, he was

[0:33] discharged by the Navy, which cited the

[0:35] Pentagon's ban on gays. Minehold filed

[0:37] suit seeking reinstatement with back

[0:39] pay. Two Democratic Party insiders will

[0:42] supervise the changing of the guard at

[0:44] the White House. A spokesman for

[0:46] President-elect Bill Clinton said

[0:48] day-to-day transition responsibilities

[0:49] will be handled by Warren Christopher.

[0:52] He served as deputy secretary of state

[0:54] in the Carter administration. Vernon

[0:56] Jordan will chair the Clinton Transition

[0:58] Board. He's a Washington lawyer and

[1:00] former head of the National Urban

[1:01] League. He promised today women and

[1:03] minorities will be part of the Clinton

[1:05] administration.

[1:07] If you look at me

[1:10] and uh uh

[1:14] and if you

[1:16] if you think about my

[1:18] past experience in Urban League and the

[1:20] United Negro College Fund and in the

[1:22] civil rights movement generally, I think

[1:25] you can rest assured that we will have a

[1:26] diverse transition.

[1:29] President elect Clinton nursed his

[1:31] laryngitis today. aid said he plans no

[1:33] additional announcements until Monday at

[1:35] the earliest. With Al Gore about to

[1:37] become vice president, Tennessee loses a

[1:39] US senator. Democratic Governor Ned

[1:41] Mcwarter will appoint a replacement for

[1:43] Gore, who was honored tonight at a rally

[1:45] in Nashville. White House spokesman

[1:48] Marlon Fitzwwater said the Bush

[1:49] administration is looking forward to

[1:50] working with Clinton's transition team.

[1:52] He said chief of staff James Baker and

[1:54] others will be available to meet with

[1:55] Clinton aids. And he said the Bush

[1:57] administration will also pick a

[1:59] transition team. President and Mrs. Bush

[2:01] are taking it easy after the campaign.

[2:03] They're spending a long weekend at Camp

[2:05] David and the White House says they'll

[2:06] vacation next week on an island off

[2:08] Florida's Gulf Coast. They're scheduled

[2:10] to be back at the White House a week

[2:12] from Sunday. Ross Perau's presidential

[2:14] campaign's over, but it has apparently

[2:17] given birth to a new political action

[2:19] group. Tony Clark reports. Many Perau

[2:21] volunteers feel their work has just

[2:23] begun.

[2:25] Three days after Ross Bro's third place

[2:27] showing in the presidential race, the

[2:29] phones in his campaign headquarters are

[2:31] still ringing.

[2:32] >> Everything is snowballing so quickly for

[2:34] us. And

[2:35] >> callers want to know what's going to

[2:36] happen next and what they can do to

[2:38] help. Officials say it's a lot like the

[2:41] petition drive all over again.

[2:43] >> They want to stay involved in United We

[2:45] Stand America. They want to be sure

[2:47] their name, address, and phone number is

[2:49] in a datab bank to receive a newsletter

[2:52] to know what's happening with the

[2:53] organization. Klay Molford, the general

[2:55] counsel to the Perau campaign, is

[2:58] beginning the process of turning the

[3:00] volunteer group into a public interest

[3:02] group. It would be incorporated with

[3:04] offices in all 50 states and paid for by

[3:07] its members. Despite their impressive

[3:10] showing at the polls, organizers say

[3:12] they're not ready to become a

[3:14] full-fledged political party.

[3:16] >> I don't think third party is is

[3:18] necessary at this point in time. I think

[3:19] that's an evolution you go through and

[3:21] uh it's a complicated process.

[3:24] Perau has pledged to continue paying for

[3:26] the operation until it can stand on its

[3:28] own. Perhaps more importantly, he's

[3:30] expected to keep the group visible

[3:32] through speeches and appearances on

[3:35] interview programs.

[3:36] >> Perau has climbed up onto the stage. He

[3:39] is now a national player and the media

[3:43] will turn to Perau for judgments

[3:45] periodically throughout the Clinton

[3:47] administration.

[3:49] >> Perau received more than 19 million

[3:51] votes in the presidential election. If

[3:53] they can be held together, it will give

[3:55] the Texas businessmen a tremendous

[3:57] amount of clout. With that clout, Ross

[4:00] Perau can be the grain of sand that

[4:02] irritates the oyster that he often talks

[4:04] about. In this case, a grain of sand

[4:08] irritating Bill Clinton's

[4:09] administration. Tony Clark, CNN, Dallas.

[4:14] Leaders in Europe are trying to dismiss

[4:16] talk of a trade war with the United

[4:18] States, but their actions indicate the

[4:20] threat of an economic conflict is

[4:21] imminent. British Prime Minister John

[4:23] Major held a crisis meeting Friday with

[4:25] the president of the European

[4:26] Commission, demanding that he restart

[4:28] the stoalled GAT trade negotiations with

[4:31] Washington. That's general agreement on

[4:32] tariffs and trade. The US is insisting

[4:35] Europe reduce its farm subsidies or face

[4:37] 200% tariffs on certain imports,

[4:39] primarily white wine. The US agriculture

[4:42] secretary said the two sides are far

[4:44] from what he calls a fair deal.

[4:47] Technicians at a nuclear reprocessing

[4:49] plant in Leh France have begun the first

[4:51] leg of a controversial voyage. They've

[4:53] sent 15 trucks full of plutonium to the

[4:55] French harbor at Sherborg where the

[4:57] cargo will be shipped onto Japan. The

[5:00] convoy will be monitored by the US

[5:01] military and its route has been kept

[5:03] secret. Another 28 tons of plutonium are

[5:06] scheduled to be shipped to Japan under a

[5:08] $4 billion contract. After World War II,

[5:12] West Germany paid millions of Jewish

[5:14] victims of Nazi persecution, but East

[5:16] Germany refused to make any reparations.

[5:19] Well, now German unification has led to

[5:21] an agreement for East German Jews to be

[5:23] compensated. The World Jewish Congress

[5:25] reports an estimated 50,000 people could

[5:28] be eligible for payments of around $300

[5:31] a month. A poll of 3,000 Germans reveals

[5:34] some startling attitudes about that

[5:36] country's Nazi past. Nearly a third

[5:38] believe the Nazi era had good points.

[5:41] 64% say there was nothing good about the

[5:43] Hitler regime. Asked if Jews were partly

[5:46] to blame for their persecution, 28% in

[5:48] Western Germany said yes. 26% in the

[5:51] East agreed. Since August, there have

[5:54] been almost daily attacks on immigrants

[5:56] and Jewish monuments in Germany. The

[5:59] former Soviet Republic of Tajjikhstan is

[6:02] is uh asking Russia to keep its troops

[6:05] in the country to help restore peace

[6:07] between rival factions. The fighting is

[6:09] between government forces and supporters

[6:11] of former communist authorities. Former

[6:13] communist president Rakman Nabv was

[6:15] ousted in September by a coalition of

[6:17] Islamic and government and democratic

[6:19] forces. The embattled Tajik president

[6:22] has asked Russian troops to help disarm

[6:23] rebels and enforce curfews. Muslim

[6:26] leaders in Bosnia Herzgoina have

[6:28] temporarily called off a Red Cross

[6:30] evacuation of refugees. About 6,000

[6:33] refugees are planning to leave Sieo this

[6:36] weekend, but Bosnia's military leaders

[6:37] will not allow men between the ages of

[6:39] 18 and 60 to leave under any

[6:41] circumstances. It wants them to stay to

[6:44] defend Sieo from Serbian forces.

[6:46] Meanwhile, the United Nations is

[6:48] examining new reports of alleged wartime

[6:50] atrocities in Bosnia Herziggoina. Ral

[6:53] Begler has more. Words cannot adequately

[6:56] describe the barbarity of the crimes

[6:58] contained in the latest US report to the

[7:01] United Nations of atrocities in the

[7:02] Balkans war and pictures are too

[7:05] horrible for television. The report

[7:07] lists hundreds of cases of wanton

[7:09] murder, torture, and abuse of civilians,

[7:12] mostly Muslims. It's intended to push

[7:14] the United Nations toward war crimes

[7:16] prosecutions. Several hundred men packed

[7:19] into a corrugated steel warehouse,

[7:21] machine gunned by Serb soldiers right

[7:23] through the steel. Wounded prisoners

[7:26] still alive piled into trucks with the

[7:28] dead. A 30-year-old Muslim forced to

[7:31] carry 700 bodies during his 9-month

[7:34] imprisonment. Others forced to drink

[7:36] motor oil and urine before being

[7:38] castrated, then killed. The United

[7:41] States insists the world is not standing

[7:43] idly by. Sanctions against Belgrade have

[7:46] been installed and tightened. Reports to

[7:48] the UN containing names, dates, and

[7:50] places intended to deter further crimes.

[7:53] Inspectors in camps and grave sites to

[7:55] make it harder for the atrocities to

[7:57] continue. Red Cross access to prison

[7:59] camps is beginning to free thousands of

[8:02] prisoners. But winter is setting in, and

[8:04] observers foresee more death from

[8:06] starvation and cold. There are certainly

[8:08] going to be hardships this winter and

[8:10] there's certainly going to be deaths

[8:11] this winter. If you're somehow implying

[8:13] that we're responsible for those deaths,

[8:15] I really have to reject that.

[8:19] >> But the US and others are taking in only

[8:21] a small fraction of those who made it

[8:23] out alive. And there are leaks in Danube

[8:26] River shipping sanctions, and Serb

[8:28] leaders continue to defy a UN no-fly

[8:31] order over Bosnia. Fighting still

[8:33] disrupts convoys and the airlift

[8:35] carrying food and winter supplies. And

[8:37] outsiders acknowledge most of what used

[8:39] to be Muslim Bosnia has been taken over

[8:42] by the Serbs. Ralph Begler, CNN at the

[8:45] State Department.

[8:46] >> Coming up in dollars and cents,

[8:47] unemployment lines are getting shorter.

[8:49] and later Frank Sinatra, the man, the

[8:51] legend, the miniseries,

[8:53] >> the